[mythtv-users] X.264 Broadcast Subtitles

Kirk Bocek t004 at kbocek.com
Wed Nov 30 16:19:09 UTC 2016



On 11/30/2016 7:23 AM, Peter Bennett wrote:
> On 11/30/2016 09:51 AM, Kirk Bocek wrote:
>> What is the status of X.264 broadcast subtitles? Comcast is slowly
>> moving more channels to X.264 and Myth can't display the subtitles.
>>
>> Didn't someone post something about a patch that would enable
>> subtitles in Mplayer?
>>
> The fix has been in for a couple of weeks now. Are you using the latest
> fixes/0.28?
>
> There are still some issues with it, I find that the subtitles on TBS
> are corrupted, other channels are OK. Other people report subtitles are
> not working on some programs on AMC. There may be more improvements with
> the next version of ffmpeg which will be with MythTV 29.
>

No, I'm on 0.27.4. I *thought* 0.28 fixed things but saw some posts 
stating otherwise. If 0.28 works I'll put the upgrade back on my to-do list.


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