[mythtv-users] transcoder looses subtitles - a bug or a feature?

[John Veness]

ikke wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have had this problem for years, I think. But now it happened again
> on a show I keep recording, so I could do investigations on it if
> someone helped me...
> 
> The show is received as DVB-C broadcast with swedish spoken language,
> and finnish subtitles. I can see it with no problems. I marked
> commercials and made a default transcode to cut and shrink it a bit.
> 
> This leaves me with the picture and sound just fine, but no subtitles.
> This happens often, if not always. I would say always, but I can't
> prove it...
> 
> Why is this? Should I issue a bug report?

I record DVB-T and the DVB subtitles always get lost when I do a 
lossless transcode (as does MHEG content), so it's not just you. I've 
always accepted it as just one of those things, but it would be nice if 
they weren't lost.

Cheers,

John

-- 
John Veness, MythTV user, UK, DVB-T