<div dir="ltr">On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 10:06 PM, James Linder <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jam@tigger.ws" target="_blank">jam@tigger.ws</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> Hi<br>
could a kind sole explain to me please:<br>
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I have an indian film with english subtitles embedded in a mkv container. Neither my samsung tv or myth or myth pnp will play the subtitles.<br>
VLC *does* play them.<br>
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I have a film in an avi container with embedded subtitles. Myth and upnp as well as the samsung *do* play the subtitles.<br>
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mythtranscode chokes. but ffmpeg (the ubuntu 14.04 sorry about that (avconv) version) works without complaint when transcoding from mkv to avi container.<br>
The new avi file does not work.<br>
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I am overwhelmed, but what I'm trying to do is play myth with subtitles<br>
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Thanks<br>
James<br>
<br></blockquote></div><SNIP - too big for list><br><br><div class="gmail_extra">All of my Videos are in mkv containers. You
definitely need the mkv*toolnix apps to manipulate them easily. For
forced subs which I am sure you are referring to probably::<br><br>mkvmerge --identify <file><br>File '<video>': container: Matroska<br>Track ID 0: video (MPEG-4p10/AVC/h.264)<br>Track ID 1: audio (DTS-HD Master Audio)<br>Track ID 2: audio (DTS)<br>Track ID 3: audio (AC-3/E-AC-3)<br>Track ID 4: subtitles (HDMV PGS)<br>Track ID 5: subtitles (HDMV PGS)<br>Track ID 6: subtitles (HDMV PGS)<br><br>mkvpropedit
<video> --edit track:s1 --set flag-default=0 \ <br> --edit track:s2
--set flag-forced=1 --edit track:s2 --set flag-default=1<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">s1
is the 1st subtitle track (Track ID 4 from above). This says make s2
track default and forced and removes default from the s1 sub track.<br><br></div>HTH<br></div></div>