[mythtv-users] No subtitle support in Mythvideo on 0.24

[Adam Jimerson]

On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 9:46 PM, Robert McNamara
<robert.mcnamara at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 6:39 PM, Adam Jimerson <vendion at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > When playing one of the videos that I know to have subtitles in it I see
> no
> > "Subtitle" option listed under the OSD menu.  I opened up a video and
> played
> > a couple of seconds with, long enough till I got to a point where I knew
> > that the subtitles should display.  The output is very verbose so I put
> in
> > on pastebin -> http://pastebin.com/xMK5bUhL (sorry to the people who
> > dislike/hate pastebin for political or religious reasons), but if I open
> the
> > same video in VLC the subtitles are displayed.
> >
>
> This is an ASS/SSA subtitle.  Other players support this through
> libass, but Myth has no such support.  There are patches in trac which
> use this approach, and either those patches or an ffmpeg resync should
> do the trick.  Even ffmpeg only added support for this type of
> subtitle in the last couple months.
>
> Robert
>
>
Thanks Robert for letting me know, I think ffmpeg's support for it had to be
fairly recent as well the version of ffmpeg I have on my box is from
20110121.
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