DVD subtitle access in front row?

Does anybody know if it is possible, while viewing DVDs in front row, to get the subtitiles on the screen? I know that it is possilbe when using the "DVD player" program that comes with macs. Any ideas?
Thanks,
Adam

Douglas McLaughlin wrote:
Videos are played through QuickTime but DVDs are not.
DVDs used to be played in the background, behind the Front Row GUI, with the DVD Player application. This changed with version 1.3 and now DVDs are played directly with Front Row through QuickTime.
-Doug
QuickTime cannot play DVDs. Not even if you buy the MPEG2 codec for QuickTime (it will not play the sound, or the DVD menu, only the video from a .VOB file). What is happening is that FrontRow is talking to the "DVDPlayback.framework" that underlies the DVD Player application (in the past as you point out it used to merely ask the DVD Application to do this). It is not QuickTime.
See http://developer.apple.com/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/OSXTechnology_Overview/SystemTechnology/chapter_4_section3.html
However, regardless of how FrontRow is now doing it, it is still the case that you should then be able to see the initial DVD menu (from the disk) and to select and turn on subtitles via that menu (assuming the DVD in question has such a menu and it includes such a choice).

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