[mythtv-users] Internal Player DVD Subtitles

John Finlay finlay at moeraki.com
Fri Feb 26 19:51:43 UTC 2010


On 2/26/2010 9:30 AM, John Baab wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Vince Coen<vbcoen at btconnect.com>  wrote:
>    
>> On Friday 26 Feb 2010, John Baab wrote:
>>      
>>> This is one issue I noticed recently with the internal player.  While
>>> watching Taken and Angels&  Demons, there are parts of the film where
>>> people talk in foreign languages and subtitles should appear.  By
>>> default they do not, togglign on the subtitles gave me success with
>>> one of the films but not with the other, it also left me watching the
>>> entire film with subtitles.  Has anyone ever experienced this?
>>>        
>> This (in the UK) seems to depend on channel and programme.
>>
>> I often turn on subtitles (unless it get in the way of the picture or it
>> lags).
>>
>> On foreign language firms, I have not noticed (generally) an issue here.
>> Watched Apocalypto and that worked as expected but the odd film/programme did
>> not and I'm guessing it has something to do with the transmission procedures
>> in place by the station or transmitter.
>>
>> The fact that it works on some seems to me, to not indicate a problem with
>> mythtv but short of complaining to the channel's tech support I can't see how
>> to resolve.
>>
>> Vince
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>>      
> Well these aren't foreign films, they are just films that happen to
> have bits of foreign language in them.  I suppose I could try to play
> straight from the DVD to verify it behave the same.  If others haven't
> noticed the issue then it may be an issue on my end and not with
> internal player.
>    
When I played Angels and Demons straight from the DVD I noticed the same 
problem of "missing" "translation" subtitles early in the film. The 
translations appeared if the english subtitles were enabled. I assume 
it's the way the DVD was done and nothing to do with mythtv's internal 
player.

John


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