patters wrote:Soft subs work in MKV, so I guess if you transcode VOBs into MKV that might work. Did you try that?
No, I did not try that yet. I always wanted to keep to standards and thought mkv would not be the first choice as a container for MPEG-2/mp2 from DVB recordings. I did try muxing other files into mkv before and found that the S370 doesn't play a single mkv I muxed myself (with mkvmerge GUI), regardless of codecs contained. It's fine with mkvs from the internet (most of which were muxed with mkvmerge as well), but not with
any home muxed mkv. I'll dig further into this this afternoon. EDIT: mkvs containing anything other than h264 or divx don't seem to work at all, so my plan of muxing MPEG2 video, multiple audio and subs into mkvs has failed.
patters wrote:I'm not especially convinced by that guy's blog conclusion that the player must be the problem.
Me neither. I do have experienced the pink screen of death, though.
patters wrote:You can kind of get around the issue my transcoding everything to M2TS but then you lose alternate audio tracks and soft subs support in MKV.
Multi audio does work in TS here, and I'm in the happy position that almost all my subbed stuff is SD, so I can set a transcoding filter which only kicks in if it detects h264 inside an mkv. All other mkv are advertised to the player as divx as defined in the player profile (and do not FF/REWIND, but I'm fine with PAUSE/PLAY. If a new files gets FF-critical, I remux it to a native TS and can watch it forwards and backwards).
I have to admit I tried another DLNA server in the meantime, and it plays just about bl**dy everything on the S370. Multiple audio, multiple subs, flv and all. But at the cost of taking a completely different approach, by creating some kind of folder structure from each and every multitracked file, containing every possible combination of audio and subs, e.g. if you have a dual-audio dual-subs file, it creates one entry for each audio without subs and one for each audio with each sub, altogether there are 6 entries for that video, and 7 if you declare the container format playable natively in the server's setup, which creates a
direct entry as well.
That's very versatile, but I'd clearly prefer a solution where I can switch between audio and subs while playing the video.
CU,
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