[mythtv-users] transcoder looses subtitles - a bug or a feature?

[bobwsmailbox-mytv at yahoo.com]

> I have had this problem for years, I think. But now it happened again
> on a show I keep recording, so I could do investigations on it if
> someone helped me...
>
> The show is received as DVB-C broadcast with swedish spoken language,
> and finnish subtitles. I can see it with no problems. I marked
> commercials and made a default transcode to cut and shrink it a bit.
>
> This leaves me with the picture and sound just fine, but no subtitles.
> This happens often, if not always. I would say always, but I can't
> prove it...

I can't say if it is a bug or not, however, if you install and use ccextractor
http://ccextractor.sourceforge.net/
and run it before transcoding to create a .srt file then mythtv will see the .srt file and provide
subtitles when selected in mythtv players.

Downside--manual process, would need to create a script to run ccextractor before transcoding.
Also, I haven't tried it with cutlists, so the subtitles may not be synchronized if you cut out
sections while transcoding.

But it shows the potential to save subtitles when transcoding.

Bob