[mythtv-users] bear of little brain

[Tom Dexter]

On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 11:06 PM, James Linder <jam at tigger.ws> wrote:
>   Hi
> could a kind sole explain to me please:
>
> 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.
> VLC *does* play them.
>

I had this issue with MythTV with subtitles in mkv files (ones that
did in fact work in xine for example) and discovered that it was
because I hadn't enabled libass support in mythtv. Have you checked
that?

Tom