[mythtv-users] UPnP Client?

[Mike Perkins]

Brian Wood wrote:
> On Monday 14 September 2009 10:48:23 Mikael Carlsson wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>> MythTV UPnP support is currently focused around the UPnP
>>> media server that is part of mythbackend i.e. people are
>>> using it to serve up their mythtv content to other media
>>> players such as PS3s. There is no special configuration
>>> required to get this up and running - for the most part it just works.
>> I have a PS3 slim and I am playing mythtv recordings with great result.
>> There is just one small item, I can not get the subtitles to work. Any
>> ideas what might be causing this? Is it related to PS3 gameOS or to mythtv
>> upnp limitation?
> 
> Are you talking about subtitles or captions? There is a difference. Even if 
> you decide you mean captions, there are the older NTSC closed captions and 
> the newer ATSC replacement. Subtitles are often in a seperate file, and can 
> be ripped off of a DVD or the like into a .srt file, which I know Myth can 
> use but I'm not sure about the PS3. Mplayer knows how to use a .srt file, but 
> I know that won't help you.
> 
> There have been some posts here about this matter, I don't recall what the 
> bottom line was, however.
> 
He's in Sweden, NTSC/ATSC don't apply there. I don't know enough about the PAL 
system to contribute further, though.

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Mike Perkins