WD TV Live, subtitles dont work

[tcviper]

Hello,

The main website states that WD TV Live devices should work with subtitles but it doesnt.
I tried to play MKV files that have a same name .SRT file with it and when playing through serviio 1.0 the WD TV Live says no subtitles, it seems only embedded subtitles work?

When adding the network drive directly in the WD TV, subtitles play fine.

Any idea?

[zip]

try to search the forum. It might only support subs for certain files. Also make sure you have WDTV profile selected.

[tcviper]

lol, i always thought it would do that by itself but you are right, wrong profile was selected (it was set to generic!).

[tcviper]

That did not solve it though, according to your website: WDTV Live (supports subtitles) and the description says .SRT, but it keeps saying subtitles: off.

[zip]

viewtopic.php?f=5&t=4695&hilit=wdtv+subtitles&start=10#p38640

There's an easy work-around for WD TV Live not displaying external subtitles with mkv video files.

Basically you re-mux the mkv and make the external .srt file part of the mkv file.

A good tool for doing this is mkvmerge. It's fast and easy to use. Not sure if it's available for Windows or Mac, but I use it on Linux and it works really well.

You can always set hardsub for mkv container for example. With Serviio 1.2.1 the subtitiles will be burned into the movie.

This is what I add in my profile.xml to enable hardsub:

  Code:

 <Profile id="14" name="WDTV Live" extendsProfileId="1">
       ......
        <Subtitles>
               <SoftSubs mime-type="text/srt" />
               <HardSubs>
                     <RequiredFor container="matroska" />
              </HardSubs>
       </Subtitles>
 </Profile>