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

[Shawn King]

On 03/22/2011 11:46 AM, Robert McNamara 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
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actually the patches in trac uses ffmpegs changes and passes it on to 
libass to do the rendering so ffmpeg merge is needed for those patches 
to work.

ffmpegs SSA/ASS support does not do rendering it only provides the event 
lines and subtitle headers the merge should also give better SRT support 
since ffmpeg now converts SRT subtitles to SSA/ASS for libass to render