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

Steven Adeff adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com
Wed Mar 17 18:04:53 UTC 2010


On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Steven Adeff <adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 3:25 PM, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Steven Adeff <adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 5:09 PM, Steven Adeff <adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 5:57 AM, Darren Black <lists.drdaz at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 2:47 AM, Steven Adeff <adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> Has anyone else noticed that subtitles in mkv files are not working in
>>>>>> the internal player for MythVideo?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Does anyone know if external subtitle files work?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>  I'm not sure that integrated subs in mkv files have ever worked in
>>>>> Internal... But extract the subs and name them properly and they will work.
>>>>
>>>> I'd swear at some point it did work. oh well, thanks for confirming
>>>> extracting the subtitle file will work!
>>>
>>> well, I tried extracting the subtitle file, and named as the original
>>> video with either .sub or .srt and MythVideo still doesn't work with
>>> it or even seem to look for it according to the log output.
>>
>> Maybe its the naming issue bug. There can be one and one only . in the
>> subtitle filename, and thats immediately before the mkv extension. so:
>>
>> the.shining.srt will NOT work
>>
>> the_shining.srt WILL work.
>>
>> Of course you may then need to rename the .mkv file to match.
>
> hrmm, no extra periods, but what about the following:
> ( ) :
> ?

well, I can't for the life of my get subtitles to work in 0.22. both
as separate files and embedded into the mkv, with nothing in the logs
when running -v all
hopefully someone that knows how to fix this can get around to it.

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Steve
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