[mythtv] [mythtv-users] Subtitles and Comcast x264

John P Poet jppoet at gmail.com
Wed Nov 9 20:50:31 UTC 2016


On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 1:35 PM Peter Bennett <pgbennett at comcast.net> wrote:

> On 11/09/2016 02:20 PM, John P Poet wrote:
>
> On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 12:07 PM Gary Buhrmaster <gary.buhrmaster at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 6:41 PM, Peter Bennett <pgbennett at comcast.net>
> wrote:
>
> > MythTV does not detect the subtitles.
>
> What version of MythTV?  There was a discussion about
> 4 months ago where (I think) a dev thought the FFMpeg
> in 0.28 should have the needed support (but it was
> unverified, and AFAIR no one confirmed/denied).
>
>
> Maybe start here:
>
> https://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/12893
>
> I have a patch which I can contribute from a work colleague, which adds it
> for a 2 or 3 year old version of ffmpeg, but I am pretty sure it does not
> apply against the current ffmpeg.
>
> John
>
> Thanks John
>
> Is it acceptable to add a fix to our local ffmpeg, knowing that it will be
> lost when we pull in the next version? If so I can give this a test and see
> what happens.
>
> One problem - it may work with ffmpeg but fail with vdpau and other
> hardware assisted decoders.
>

In my opinion, yes.  Lately it has been Jean-Yves that has undertaken the
task of keeping Myth synced with upstream ffmpeg, so his opinion has more
weight.

John
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