Subtitles support

What is a good tool for this purpose? Everything I've tried pulls out subtitles that are badly timed from an mkv... ... and also i can leave the file type as mkv and it will still handle an srt the same way?

thanks in advance.

[zip]

What is a good tool for this purpose?

Never used one, try googling...

i can leave the file type as mkv and it will still handle an srt the same way?

Yes

I am using MKVextract 1.6.4.1
homepage here www.matroska.org, but download doesn"t work
so download it from http://www.videohelp.com/tools/MKVExtractGUI

zip, I have a Blu-ray player Samsung BD-C5500, do you want me to make any tests with it? I can tell now that serviio don't show any subs, but PC Share Manager does. Do you want me to test with another program? If so, how? Do you have any idea why the subs aren't working?

Luiz Borges

Do you still need more logs/debug info for this? I can try and capture it in a bit (C6500)

Subtitles are working fine with minidlna (http://minidlna.sourceforge.net/), but not with Serviio. Perhaps you can check how they did it?
BTW I'm on Gentoo Linux amd64 and streaming to a Samsung UE40C6000 with latest update (v. 1010). I'm using the Samsung WiselinkPro (C-series) setting

[kairoh]

Hi, for my first post, i'd say i really enjoy Serviio.
Second for this problem, i've made some test with other server.

The only that has worked well, was Mezzmo (trial).
Here are the tcp dumps.

  Code:

GET <...> HTTP/1.0
HOST: <...:...>
ACCEPT-LANGUAGE: en-us
getcontentFeatures.dlna.org:1
transferMode.dlna.org:Background


  Code:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Windows, UPnP/1.0 DLNADOC/1.50, Mezzmo Media Server/2.1.8.0
Date: Sat, 07 Aug 2010 23:31:11 GMT
Last-Modified: Sat, 07 Aug 2010 23:31:11 GMT
Connection: keep-alive
Expires: Sat, 07 Aug 2010 23:31:11 GMT
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Cache-Control: no-cache
Content-Length: 31110
transferMode.dlna.org: Background
Content-Type: text/srt

  Code:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Windows XP UPnP/1.0 Serviio 0.4.1
Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2010 09:26:32 GMT
Cache-control: no-cache
Content-Length: 31110
transferMode.dlna.org: Background
Content-Type: smi/caption
Pragma: no-cache
contentFeatures.dlna.org: DLNA.ORG_OP=00;DLNA.ORG_CI=0;

I try changing "Content-Type" from "smi/caption" to "text/srt".
I think these is useless header : contentFeatures.dlna.org
Mezzmo seems to always use keep-alive connection (provided with HTTP 1.1).
Hope this will help you.

If you share me your code, maybe i could implement it.
Thanks!

TVMobili works flawlessly with Series C, including subtitle, it's free and allows sharing media with friends. But it does not have the cataloging capabilities from Serviio...

In my Blu-ray player C5500 the subtitles also don't work with TVMobili.

Luiz Borges

In my Blu-ray player C5500 the subtitles also don't work with TVMobili.

Luiz Borges

Did you try to get in contact with the developer? The available version also didnt show the subtitles on my Series C TV but the developer sent me a dev build and it has worked very well.
Not sure though if it's working for a BD player

Any progress on making .srt files work with the C-series of samsung?

Ark

[zip]

Not really, tried a lot and still no success. I'd be great if some of you who have the TV and some IT knowledge could try filtering the HTTP headers to mimick those of other servers (http://bitbucket.org/xnejp03/serviio/is ... -series-tv).

I'll try to sniff the traffic of the official samsung DLNA software which serves the subtitles like a charm, and paste them here. I hope this helps you:)

Ark

[zip]

I'll try to sniff the traffic of the official samsung DLNA software which serves the subtitles like a charm, and paste them here. I hope this helps you:)

Ark

I already have that, and for other servers too. It must be something trivial but it's hard to test when I don't have the TV here.

Hi, I've been trying serviio and I like it very much.
My setup is a Samsung LN40C550 connected via ethernet to an ubuntu box running the dlna server.

I am going to point out my issues but don't get me wrong I love this program, streaming works perfect even for 1080p content, cataloging of Series and movies is a great feature if improved a bit I can do without XBMC for good.

Issues: (worst first)
1. Not working .srt subtitles. (they work with miniDNLA / USB) (what about auto-fetching them like XBMC?)
2. No support for DVD menus (TV issue?) (Can transcoding/stitching help here?)
3. Not able to edit/correct metadata when it gets the wrong movie/tv series
4. RWD/FFWD not smooth on VOBs
5. Mistakenly downloads metadata for personal family videos. (Camera tag?)
6. Thumbnails for DVD movie covers look stretched
7. Scrolling down from a page to the next is a bit slow. (miniDNLA is much faster but without thumbnails)

Thanks for your great work.
Let me know if I can help you debug/fix any of the issues.

[zip]

1. Not working .srt subtitles. (they work with miniDNLA / USB) (what about auto-fetching them like XBMC?)

See post above.

2. No support for DVD menus (TV issue?) (Can transcoding/stitching help here?)

No idea what you mean here

3. Not able to edit/correct metadata when it gets the wrong movie/tv series

This will never be a part of the software. There will be, however, integration with other products that provide metadata (and you can edit them using those tools), like Swisscenter.

5. Mistakenly downloads metadata for personal family videos. (Camera tag?)

You can uncheck metadata search for each shared folder. organize your videos that way so that your personal videos are all in one root folder, share that and disable metadata searching for it.

6. Thumbnails for DVD movie covers look stretched

Are you on Samsung TV or BluRay player? They work normal on my TV.

7. Scrolling down from a page to the next is a bit slow. (miniDNLA is much faster but without thumbnails)

0.4.1 is pretty fast I think. Obviously it takes a few ms to download the thumbnails.

[kairoh]

I've finally managed to make subtitle work on my Samsung TV C series!

After many hackings on headers or on soap messages, i've tried dumb solutions.

In fact, Samsung seems to detect if a resource url is a subtitle by its extension
For example,
/resource/1/SUBTITLE is KO
/resource/1/SUBTITLE.srt is OK

Zip, I will PM you my mods.

[zip]

Great stuff, I'll add it into 0.4.2.

Kairoh, do you care to post an explanation on how you got the subtitles working? Not sure how long it will take for 0.4.2, but I'd rather have the function working right now .

P.S. zip, thanks for the awesome app! Works awesome for my C5100.

[zip]

You'd have to decompile and change the code. I hope having 0.4.2 out within a week (it's in late beta testing stage now)