Sun Nov 18, 2012 5:05 pm
Panasonic Viera MKV Blue-Ray (Audio/Subtitles) solution
Hi,
This weekend i tried to stream a MKV and Blu-Ray (both 3D) from my computer (Windows 8) to my Panasonic TV (TX-P50VT20E).
As this is the first time i tried to do this ofc it is was not working out of the box.
I hope with this i can help other people which are new to streaming video and maybe other can add info to it.
Well i installed Serviio, added a folder to share, and select the Panasonic Viera 2010 profile (as my TV is from 2010).
Started the Media Server option via Viera, on the TV, and i could see my computer and could browse though the folder structure, but when i selected a video (any format) i got the error "File not supported".
Looked into Serviio and enabled the "Transcoding" tab and enabled it with best quality and audio keep original.
After this i could play all video's (Avi, DVD, Blu-Ray, MKV) so i was very pleased ofc
1. Then i started a 3D movie (Blu-Ray mounted as drive on my computer) for the kids and change the audio language, nothing happened.
2. I started a move (Avengers) and wanted to enable the subtitles, nothing happened.
The Panasonic remote contrrol button "Option" provide the (audio) language and subtitles but nothing to choose there.
The button "STTL" (below the green smal button) to turn subtitles on and off was also not working.
I checked the video on my computer and there it had Dutch audio availible so it was Google time.
After hours searching the conclusion was MKV does not support external sub titles, nothing found for the audio option.
There is a post on the Serviio site (http://www.serviio.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33)
Serviio supports delivering external subtitles to selected devices. Currently it supports these subtitle formats:
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srt
Devices that currently support this feature (using the appropriate profile) are:
Samsung TV / BD players
LG TV / BD players
Panasonic Viera (2010 and newer models)
For Serviio to recognize the subtitle file it must be named with the same name as the video file, except the extension, e.g.:
my_movie.avi
my_movie.srt
Serviio does not support subtitles embedded in containers (e.g. MKV), nor "burning" the text into the video stream.
In a case the (srt) subtitles are not displayed, the file might be corrupted or not suitable for viewing on your device. You might try fixing it with SrtWiz.
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My TV is a Panasonic Viera 2010 model, as far as i know, so i thought well this should work but the line "Serviio does not support subtitles embedded in containers" told me it was not working.
So it should support external subtitles so i exported the subtitles from the MKV as a SRT file as mentioned above, gave it the same name as the MKV and placed in the same directory.
Started the video on my TV and......nothing (again).
Back to Google again. After a while i came to the conclusion that my TV was simply not supporting this feature, i cannot think of something else.
So now what.
After a couple a hours i tried the following:
1. Download "Freemake Video Converter"
2. Start "Freemake Video Converter" and choose the button "Video"
3. I selected the mounted Blu-Ray ISO file
4. Then changed the default language (click on the part AC3/5.1 etc, it has the flag of the language right of it) and changed it
5. Then i choose output to MKV (conversion can take a while)
When i played this new MKV the audio was changed finally !!!!
I tried the same with the Avengers move and choose the right subtitle within "Freemake Video Converter" (it is right of the audio selection descibed above) and that also worked !!!!
I can see my subtitles now.
The question is if there is an easier way to have the same result and if there is a hope someone can post it here but for now i'm very happy ofc
This weekend i tried to stream a MKV and Blu-Ray (both 3D) from my computer (Windows 8) to my Panasonic TV (TX-P50VT20E).
As this is the first time i tried to do this ofc it is was not working out of the box.
I hope with this i can help other people which are new to streaming video and maybe other can add info to it.
Well i installed Serviio, added a folder to share, and select the Panasonic Viera 2010 profile (as my TV is from 2010).
Started the Media Server option via Viera, on the TV, and i could see my computer and could browse though the folder structure, but when i selected a video (any format) i got the error "File not supported".
Looked into Serviio and enabled the "Transcoding" tab and enabled it with best quality and audio keep original.
After this i could play all video's (Avi, DVD, Blu-Ray, MKV) so i was very pleased ofc
1. Then i started a 3D movie (Blu-Ray mounted as drive on my computer) for the kids and change the audio language, nothing happened.
2. I started a move (Avengers) and wanted to enable the subtitles, nothing happened.
The Panasonic remote contrrol button "Option" provide the (audio) language and subtitles but nothing to choose there.
The button "STTL" (below the green smal button) to turn subtitles on and off was also not working.
I checked the video on my computer and there it had Dutch audio availible so it was Google time.
After hours searching the conclusion was MKV does not support external sub titles, nothing found for the audio option.
There is a post on the Serviio site (http://www.serviio.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33)
Serviio supports delivering external subtitles to selected devices. Currently it supports these subtitle formats:
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
srt
Devices that currently support this feature (using the appropriate profile) are:
Samsung TV / BD players
LG TV / BD players
Panasonic Viera (2010 and newer models)
For Serviio to recognize the subtitle file it must be named with the same name as the video file, except the extension, e.g.:
my_movie.avi
my_movie.srt
Serviio does not support subtitles embedded in containers (e.g. MKV), nor "burning" the text into the video stream.
In a case the (srt) subtitles are not displayed, the file might be corrupted or not suitable for viewing on your device. You might try fixing it with SrtWiz.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
My TV is a Panasonic Viera 2010 model, as far as i know, so i thought well this should work but the line "Serviio does not support subtitles embedded in containers" told me it was not working.
So it should support external subtitles so i exported the subtitles from the MKV as a SRT file as mentioned above, gave it the same name as the MKV and placed in the same directory.
Started the video on my TV and......nothing (again).
Back to Google again. After a while i came to the conclusion that my TV was simply not supporting this feature, i cannot think of something else.
So now what.
After a couple a hours i tried the following:
1. Download "Freemake Video Converter"
2. Start "Freemake Video Converter" and choose the button "Video"
3. I selected the mounted Blu-Ray ISO file
4. Then changed the default language (click on the part AC3/5.1 etc, it has the flag of the language right of it) and changed it
5. Then i choose output to MKV (conversion can take a while)
When i played this new MKV the audio was changed finally !!!!
I tried the same with the Avengers move and choose the right subtitle within "Freemake Video Converter" (it is right of the audio selection descibed above) and that also worked !!!!
I can see my subtitles now.
The question is if there is an easier way to have the same result and if there is a hope someone can post it here but for now i'm very happy ofc
