Subtitles

Hi, are you planing to impmement embed subtitles with transcoding?

I have an Xbox 360 and a Sony Bravia TV, in both devices, I cant watch any movie with subtitles... I used a demo version of Wild Media Server, which does embed subtitles and it worked ok. It would be great if Serviio could do it too.

Great work!!

Regards

[Cerberus]

sadly this cant be done till FFmpeg supports it, but im sure zip will add it when its availible cause it seems very popular idea on these forums.

I have the same problem here. I tried several servers with my sony bravia + mac, and the only one that seems to work is Serviio. But, as I got to watch the video transcoded, the subtitles dont work.

Anyway, I'll be waiting. I dont wanna try any more servers, since this one fits all my needs.
But I sincerely hope that this problem have a fast sollution, since the internet is filled with complaints about Bravia users about this matter.
If you guys can solve this, you would shurely become the most popular server on the web

Regards

Daniel (Brazil)

[mustafacat]

Hello
I'm new to Serviio, i tried PMS before but it is not as good as Serviio. I have Sony Bravia KDL 40NX710 ans BDP S470, running Serviio on Hp pavilion 1225. I have two requests actually, first thing is subtitle support for sony. it is really really very important to us, I'm from middle east and would love to watch movies with subtitles in my native language as my wife is not very fluent in english. the other this if the player can support mkv with DTS without converting them to DD. as I have sony 5.1 home theater and would love to enjoy the DTS

[Cerberus]

Hello
I'm new to Serviio, i tried PMS before but it is not as good as Serviio. I have Sony Bravia KDL 40NX710 ans BDP S470, running Serviio on Hp pavilion 1225. I have two requests actually, first thing is subtitle support for sony. it is really really very important to us, I'm from middle east and would love to watch movies with subtitles in my native language as my wife is not very fluent in english. the other this if the player can support mkv with DTS without converting them to DD. as I have sony 5.1 home theater and would love to enjoy the DTS

Check out the SONY section of the support forums there is lots of information there.

How can I see subtitles on xbox 360?

[zip]

you can't

If/when support for AviSynth (AVS) files is added, you would be able to burn subtitles on-the-fly from Windows-based systems. My guess is this is low priority, though. But I've been doing it for years this way to my Tivo/PyTivo configuration (which also uses ffmpeg).

If/when support for AviSynth (AVS) files is added, you would be able to burn subtitles on-the-fly from Windows-based systems. My guess is this is low priority, though. But I've been doing it for years this way to my Tivo/PyTivo configuration (which also uses ffmpeg).

I'm very interested about this feature. Wouldn't it also be easier in terms of tv compatibility to just transcode everything by default and send the most preferred stream codec to the tv?

If that is your preference, you could do that today - just no support for on the fly AVS. For me, I run Serviio on an old PC and want to avoid transcoding as much as possible. I preconvert frequently watched videos (stuff my kids watch over and over) to avoid transcoding on my Serviio box and to save space.

Hi! Is there any possibility to use the subtitles already included in an mkv? To avoid downloading subtitles if the video file already has them?

You can extract the subtitles from an MKV file using a demuxer. Look up "mkvtools". I'm sure MeGui also does this and is a great tool in general.

[Xmantium]

I found this post suggesting ffmpeg can encode subs in the video... Not tried it

http://superuser.com/questions/292925/f ... e-subtitle

[zip]

it just add it to the container, not into the video stream

[Xmantium]

it just add it to the container, not into the video stream

Ah! What about this
http://ffmpeg.gusari.org/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=34

But to convert the more popular srt to ass
http://ffmpeg.gusari.org/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=33

[Xmantium]

Since this is a two step process.

Is it possible for the user to convert the subtitle files to .ass themselves and Serviio transcodes the file with the .ass file already there

[zip]

The FFmpeg guys seem to be working on the proper solution now, looking at their mailing list. I'll be monitoring it and as soon as it's done I'll include it. I think the idea is not to use libass and therefore anything I'd do now would be useless once they finish.

[Xmantium]

Hope they support vobsub and srt subtitles, its long time due since mencoder has this for a long time