[mythtv-users] dvd subtitles ignored

[Stephen Worthington]

On Tue, 3 Nov 2020 15:31:17 +0800, you wrote:

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>> On 3 Nov 2020, at 1:49 pm, Paul Gardiner <lists at glidos.net> wrote:
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>> On 3 November 2020 01:46:49 GMT, James Linder <jam at tigger.ws> wrote:
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>>>> On 2 Nov 2020, at 8:45 pm, Mark Kendall <mark.kendall at gmail.com>
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>>>> No libraries are needed for dvd subtitles - and indeed no setup. What
>>>> isn't working?
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>>> Gee Mark
>>> thanks
>>> I have ‘Lion’ and I do not get the subtitles. 
>>> I need to watch with VLC to see them. Some while ago I tried to
>>> troublshoot and was pointed at (and I can’t recall name) libs that I
>>> needed. They did not help.
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>>> I assume the subtitle text is in ‘the same place’ as the recording.
>>> Certainly VLC finds it.
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>> Although I was mistaken on this occasion, I'm pretty certain that I've had occasions in the not distant past when myth showed no subtitles but other software did. This was when I was using v29. I believe I had occasions when v29 on my main front-end didn't show them but v31 running on Amazon fire did. Also leanfront did. I recall v29 recognising that subtitles were present, allowing them to be turned on, showing the message "888" but not then displaying anything. What version of myth are you using? Could you put a sample file somewhere from which it can be downloaded?
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>I put the video and srt file here
>http://tigger.ws/lion/
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>VLC does play the subtitles
>mythtv does not
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>The reason for avi container is my samsung TV choking on mp4s.
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>James

I get subtitles on MythTV v31+fixes.  In VLC it sees two sets of
subtitles for some reason, with no. 1 saying it is English, and no. 2
not saying what it is.  But the no. 1 subtitles are just a single
digit "1".  The no. 2 subtitles are valid English subtitles.  In
MythTV it sees only one set of subtitles.