Subtitles on Sharp Aquos TV

[Illico]

Wait a few days, the next serviio version will implement subtitles burning....

Dear all,

Could anyone share the way to build the ffmpeg of Win7 for playing video with subtitles on Sharp TV?

Besides, may I know will serviio support this later?

Thanks.

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The Win installation already includes the proper FFmpeg. Just enable burned-in subtitles in the console and follow instructions here: http://www.serviio.org/index.php?option ... icle&id=33

Hey, Mac user here. Just found out about Serviio (day 1 of the trial) and am pretty excited about the possibilities.

With that said, I've had off-and-on luck playing files that have embedded subtitles. Particularly, MKV files such as this.



Other anime release groups work well, surprisingly. The ones who use fancy fonts and stuff. Even, my lord, 10-bit!

I've enabled the server for embedded and burned-in (tested both options), but for some reason they don't show. I've set preferred language to "en,eng,english" as well. Seeing all the chatter about FFmpeg and custom builds and such, I'm not sure where the state of the nation is. Any help would be awesome, thanks!

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EDIT: I've been looking further into this and suspect that despite having an embedded subtitle, it is not given an ID (for lack of a better name)...like using MPlayerX I can select "English" or "Japanese" for some files, yet the file in question (as described above) only has "unknown". Could this be the problem or is this a known issue where a fix might be in the works?

[zip]

post ffmpeg -i of the file please

Not sure how to on a Mac. Please advise, thanks.

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EDIT: Does this help?

[zip]

No, FFmpeg output please

viewtopic.php?f=5&t=960#p12328

Better?

  Code:

ffmpeg version N-54096-ge41bf19 Copyright (c) 2000-2013 the FFmpeg developers
  built on Jun 18 2013 11:47:55 with gcc 4.0.1 (GCC) (Apple Inc. build 5493)
  configuration: --enable-static --disable-shared --disable-ffplay --disable-ffserver --enable-libmp3lame --enable-librtmp --enable-libfreetype --enable-fontconfig --enable-libass --enable-pthreads --enable-libx264 --enable-gpl --disable-mmx --extra-ldflags=-L/Users/MacAdmin/Desktop/build/target/lib --extra-cflags=-I/Users/MacAdmin/Desktop/build/target/include --extra-libs='-lpolarssl -lfreetype -lexpat -liconv'
  libavutil      52. 37.101 / 52. 37.101
  libavcodec     55. 16.100 / 55. 16.100
  libavformat    55.  9.100 / 55.  9.100
  libavdevice    55.  2.100 / 55.  2.100
  libavfilter     3. 77.101 /  3. 77.101
  libswscale      2.  3.100 /  2.  3.100
  libswresample   0. 17.102 /  0. 17.102
  libpostproc    52.  3.100 / 52.  3.100
Input #0, matroska,webm, from '/Volumes/Green/Shared Media/1. Anime/Kill la Kill/kill.mkv':
  Metadata:
    creation_time   : 2013-10-03 18:38:16
  Duration: 00:24:27.13, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 3195 kb/s
    Stream #0:0: Video: h264 (High), yuv420p, 1920x1080 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], 23.81 fps, 23.81 tbr, 1k tbn, 47.95 tbc (default) (forced)
    Stream #0:1: Audio: aac, 44100 Hz, stereo, fltp (default) (forced)
    Stream #0:2: Subtitle: ssa (default) (forced)
Codec 0x18000 is not in the full list.
    Stream #0:3: Attachment: unknown_codec
    Metadata:
      filename        : OpenSans-Semibold.ttf
      mimetype        : application/x-truetype-font

The Win installation already includes the proper FFmpeg. Just enable burned-in subtitles in the console and follow instructions here: http://www.serviio.org/index.php?option ... icle&id=33

Thanks for reply.
Just one more question about serviio and Sharp TVs.

May I know does serviio support solutions below for Sharp TVs?
- External subtitles solution (file.mkv + file_en.srt) (not the burned-in subtitle)
- Embedded subtitles (file.mkv that included several srts)

As I know the burned-in solution doesn't support rewind / fast-forward. That's why I have the question above.

Thanks thanks.

[zip]

Better?

  Code:

ffmpeg version N-54096-ge41bf19 Copyright (c) 2000-2013 the FFmpeg developers
  built on Jun 18 2013 11:47:55 with gcc 4.0.1 (GCC) (Apple Inc. build 5493)
  configuration: --enable-static --disable-shared --disable-ffplay --disable-ffserver --enable-libmp3lame --enable-librtmp --enable-libfreetype --enable-fontconfig --enable-libass --enable-pthreads --enable-libx264 --enable-gpl --disable-mmx --extra-ldflags=-L/Users/MacAdmin/Desktop/build/target/lib --extra-cflags=-I/Users/MacAdmin/Desktop/build/target/include --extra-libs='-lpolarssl -lfreetype -lexpat -liconv'
  libavutil      52. 37.101 / 52. 37.101
  libavcodec     55. 16.100 / 55. 16.100
  libavformat    55.  9.100 / 55.  9.100
  libavdevice    55.  2.100 / 55.  2.100
  libavfilter     3. 77.101 /  3. 77.101
  libswscale      2.  3.100 /  2.  3.100
  libswresample   0. 17.102 /  0. 17.102
  libpostproc    52.  3.100 / 52.  3.100
Input #0, matroska,webm, from '/Volumes/Green/Shared Media/1. Anime/Kill la Kill/kill.mkv':
  Metadata:
    creation_time   : 2013-10-03 18:38:16
  Duration: 00:24:27.13, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 3195 kb/s
    Stream #0:0: Video: h264 (High), yuv420p, 1920x1080 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], 23.81 fps, 23.81 tbr, 1k tbn, 47.95 tbc (default) (forced)
    Stream #0:1: Audio: aac, 44100 Hz, stereo, fltp (default) (forced)
    Stream #0:2: Subtitle: ssa (default) (forced)
Codec 0x18000 is not in the full list.
    Stream #0:3: Attachment: unknown_codec
    Metadata:
      filename        : OpenSans-Semibold.ttf
      mimetype        : application/x-truetype-font

Try to put 'default' in the preferred language section in the console.

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- External subtitles solution (file.mkv + file_en.srt) (not the burned-in subtitle)

Up to the TV, I don't think Sharp supports that

- Embedded subtitles (file.mkv that included several srts)

Again up to the TV, first it has to play MKV natively without transcoding, and then support switching subtitle tracks - no idea if Sharp supports that.

Thanks for reply again.

Finally, I understand that I need a device like chromecast!!!
Thanks.

Try to put 'default' in the preferred language section in the console.

I gave that a try and ensured that subtitles are always burned-in. Still didn't work

[zip]

Try to put 'default' in the preferred language section in the console.

I gave that a try and ensured that subtitles are always burned-in. Still didn't work

Ok, in that case you will have to edit the file to give the subtiles track a language code.

The fact it's done like this (and not picking up the default track) is, that sometimes your files have subtitles even if you don't need them and you'd end up transcoding files with an unwanted subtitles as a result.

That's shouldn't be tough to do with the right app, a muxer, correct? Do you have one you'd recommend?

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I don't, but google should help. Try Serviio wiki too.

I used Subler, which works and is free. Video/audio is passthrough and the only downside is that it changes the container format from MKV to M4V/MP4, so a couple of inconsistencies with the subs. But a solution. Not sure if there'd be any other implication for other files down the road, but whatever.

Thank you for all your help. I bought the pro version to help support development of your product. Looking forward to some Mavericks improvements.