[mythtv-users] 0.22fixes: mkv subtitles in internal player not working?

[German Rodriguez]

Yes, the ticket talks about embedded PGS subtitles, but the patch
fixes also embedded SUB/IDX subtitles.

I extract the .sup files and convert them to sub/idx using BDSup2Sub,
then I mux them again using mkvmerge.

mkvtoolnix can now read PGS streams from MKVs, it will probably be
able to write those streams soon too.

MakeMKV has the capability to mux PGS streams right now, but I've had
some small problems with the tool, and it won't stay free for long, so
for now I'm doing the conversion and waiting for mkvtoolnix to support
writing PGS streams.

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Ronald Frazier <ron at ronfrazier.net> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 1:09 PM, German Rodriguez <callmegar at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I've been using the patches (the last two) in ticket 6748, and they
>> work pretty well with embedded subtitles inside MKV files.
>
> What type of subtitles are you referring to. Initially I thought you
> meant embedded srt subtitles. However, looking at that ticket it
> sounds like they are talking about the PGS subtitles that bluray uses
> (which are bitmapped, similar to vobsub subtitles, rather than text
> based like srt subtitles).
>
> Assuming you are talking about PGS subitles, I'm wondering how you get
> PGS subtitles into an MKV. I've been transcoding my BluRays m2ts files
> to more managable file sizes using handbrake and storing in and MKV.
> However, handbrake can't seem to deal with PGS based subtitles
> (neither embedded in the m2ts file or in an external .sup file) and
> the mkvmerge gui only seems to under srt files, so I can't add it that
> way either. I'd love to know how to add these.
>
> --
> Ron
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