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Subtitles and inexperience... is bad mix.

PostPosted: Tue Sep 03, 2013 12:30 pm
by Joan Murt
Hello all!

I’m very new with serviio. Some days ago in another forum I use often (a programming one) somebody recommended me this wonderful software and now I’m a happy Serviio user. :)

Now I can play almost everything and when a video is giving me headaches I’m using MKVToolnix to remove audio tracks and/or HandBrake to convert it to MKV in order to get it working. This method works like charm for me, but I can see it failing when subtitles appear…

I can’t see any subtitle that has not burned into the video itself and I can’t get it to work.

Where should I start? What should I know before messing with all the settings under the sun?

In the video I’m facing the issue I can see this information in MKVToolNix:

V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
A_AC3
S_TEXT/UTF8


PS: I’m using Windows 7 and my TV is a Philips one 40PFL7605/H.

Thank you in advance!

Re: Subtitles and inexperience... is bad mix.

PostPosted: Thu Sep 05, 2013 9:32 pm
by zip
If it's embedded subtitle and the TV doesn't olay it natively like that, you have to burn them in by enabling:
- embedded subtitles
- burned-in subtitles
- and enter the subtitle language code of the subtitle track

more at http://www.serviio.org/index.php?option ... icle&id=33

NOte, that if the file is large or on remote drive, extraction of the embedded track might take too long and cause payback problems

Re: Subtitles and inexperience... is bad mix.

PostPosted: Fri Sep 06, 2013 7:57 pm
by Joan Murt
Thank you very much zip!

I'll take a look at the suggested link and try to follow the requirements you've written.

I'll come back again with the result after trying... ;)

Re: Subtitles and inexperience... is bad mix.

PostPosted: Sat Sep 14, 2013 9:40 am
by Joan Murt
No luck with that zip, that is strange... after setting the Subtitles values as recommended most of the films can't be opened in my TV... :(

I'll continue trying to burn in the subtitles (like making them part of the video itself) and then it should work... if I only would find a way to do it... Tried with Handbrake, MKVToolNix and now with Any Video Converter... let's see...

Anyway thank you for your recommendations!

Re: Subtitles and inexperience... is bad mix.

PostPosted: Tue Sep 17, 2013 12:44 pm
by zip
Most or any?

Can you post a detailed log of playing a file with burned-in subs?