[mythtv-users] Transcode loses subtitles

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Thu Feb 8 17:06:23 UTC 2007


On 01/26/2007 04:16 AM, John Pilkington wrote:
> osma ahvenlampi wrote:
>   
>> On 1/25/07, ThomP Pontoppidan <thomp3 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> Is it possible to use the transcode job and keep subtitles, and if so,
>>> how is it done?
>>>       
>> No. The transcode loses the DVB subtitle stream in both lossless and
>> MPEG-4 transcodes. In fact, the mere existence of that stream (or
>> perhaps a second voice channel, I haven't really investigated) screws
>> up transcodes totally on my 0.20-fixes installation and those Finnish
>> channels (YLE) which use DVB subtitling.
>>     
> There are clearly (at least) two reasons for using mythtranscaode: to 
> apply a cutlist, or to clean a recording to be saved in standard DVD 
> format.  Accepting that it would be difficult to retain subtitles for 
> DVD, isn't there a case for a lossless transcode that retains all the 
> streams in the original broadcast but simply applies a cutlist?
>   

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/231851#231851
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/231852#231852

Mike


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