[mythtv-users] Leanfront better support for embedded subtitles than mythfrontend

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Paul,

Sunday, June 6, 2021, 6:15:57 PM, you wrote:

> On 06/06/2021 12:04, Paul Gardiner wrote:
>> Leanfront and Mythfrontend are both working really well for me these 
>> days, and I tend to choose which to use fairly randomly. There is, 
>> however, an issue that sometimes pushes me to choose one over the other. 
>> Leanfront will often display embedded subtitles when mythfrontend wont. 
>> Mythfrontent recognises the subtitles are there and allows them to be 
>> enabled, but then doesn't display anything.
>> 
>> I'm building my own packages. Could it be that I'm leaving off a build 
>> flag that is important for working subtitles?
>> 
>> On the other hand, for external subtitles, I find that leanfront doesn't 
>> handle them, whereas Mythfrontend usually does.
>> 

> I stupidly left out a very important condition in describing this 
> problem. For recorded broadcast content, both Leanfront and Mythfrontent
> display subtitles just fine. It is downloaded content where I see 
> Leanfront displaying subtitles and Mythfrontend not.

> ffmpeg outputs this for the problematic streams:

>    Stream #0:2(eng): Subtitle: subrip

Could possibly come from the subtitles then being a separate optional
item in the video container (like on a dvd) that at view time must get
pasted into the videoimages, where in the other case it is already
pre-broadcast integrated in the video signal. 
It could be that that separate subtitle format is not fully supported.
Re-encoding with the subtitles directly in the video stream then could
help.


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