[mythtv-users] MythArchive - DVD created with movies doesn't show subtitles.... HELP!!!

Richard Shaw hobbes1069 at gmail.com
Fri Jan 9 22:18:46 UTC 2009


On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Alex Butcher <mythlist at assursys.co.uk> wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Jan 2009, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>
>> On 01/08/2009 09:40 PM, José Tomás @ Chico wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> I have two movies, "88 minutes", and "Death at a Funeral" which I want
>>> to show to my girlfriend.
>>> For both of them play shows subtitles as I required.
>>> So I decided to generate for the first time with MythArchive a single
>>> DVD with both movies.
>>>
>>> But since my girlfriend needs the subtitles I select settings so
>>> subtitles were available on DVD.
>>> Something is wrong in the MythArchive's generated DVD there is some
>>> registration for unknown subtitles, but without contents.
>>> So the result DVD have films ok but without subtitles
>>>
>>> Pls, what is wrong or missing here ?
>>
>> The transcoding app does not support preserving subtitles/captions.  See
>> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/231851#231851 and the
>> rest of the thread for a discussion of why/the problems with trying to
>> allow it.
>>
>> So, you'll need to find a different app to create your DVD's.  (Sorry,
>> but I can't recommend any.)  Or, at the very least, will need to do some
>> manual work to preserve the subtitles and/or convert captions to DVD
>> subtitles.
>>
>> (OK, I'll admit that it may be possible to use other apps--like
>> ProjectX--with MythArchive, but I don't think MythArchive supports
>> keeping the subtitles even if ProjectX does.)
>
> It does; I added the feature just over a year ago, assuming you're starting
> with a DVB MPEG file, and using ProjectX to do the cutting and
> demultiplexing.

So this does not work with ATSC MPEG2? If not, could it easily?

Richard


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