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carl-magnus.bjorkell at pp

Nov 22, 2009, 7:49 AM

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.srt subtitles with .22 internal player?

Hey all,

As far as I've understood from the wiki and various posts on the web and
this mailing list, it should be possible to get mythvideo (at least in
.22) to show .srt subtitles for given videos? Mind you that at least I
haven't been able to find any definitive answer to this question.

My problem is, as you may have guessed, that I'm not able to show any
subtitles in mythvideo. What I've tried so far:

* The .srt is the same name as the video. (only different filename
extension)
* The "automatically show captions" checkbox has been checked in the
setup screens
* I've tried pressing 'T' like crazy when the video has started playing,
but all I get is "No captions"
* 'mythfrontend -v playback | grep -i srt' gives me nothing

So, should this even be possible with 0.22-fixes? And if so, could
anyone give me a hint as to what I'm doing wrong?

As a side question, is the internal player able to handle embedded
subtitles yet? Such as embedded in .mkv's and the like?

I would really want to get rid of mplayer as and external player and
just use the internal player, but not being able to se subtitles for
archived material really is a stopper for me :/

-Calle
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carl-magnus.bjorkell at pp

Nov 22, 2009, 7:53 AM

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.srt subtitles with .22 internal player? [In reply to]

Hey all,

As far as I've understood from the wiki and various posts on the web and
this mailing list, it should be possible to get mythvideo (at least in
.22) to show .srt subtitles for given videos? Mind you that at least I
haven't been able to find any definitive answer to this question.

My problem is, as you may have guessed, that I'm not able to show any
subtitles in mythvideo. What I've tried so far:

* The .srt is the same name as the video. (only different filename
extension)
* The "automatically show captions" checkbox has been checked in the
setup screens
* I've tried pressing 'T' like crazy when the video has started playing,
but all I get is "No captions"
* 'mythfrontend -v playback | grep -i srt' gives me nothing

So, should this even be possible with 0.22-fixes? And if so, could
anyone give me a hint as to what I'm doing wrong?

As a side question, is the internal player able to handle embedded
subtitles yet? Such as embedded in .mkv's and the like?

I would really want to get rid of mplayer as and external player and
just use the internal player, but not being able to se subtitles for
archived material really is a stopper for me :/

-Calle

(P.S I'm sending this again, as apparently thunderbird was a bit to
bright for _my_ own good and used some of the mail headers from another
thread, causing the mail to be put in another thread. Sorry for this. D.S)
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mythtv at duncb

Nov 22, 2009, 8:11 AM

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Re: .srt subtitles with .22 internal player? [In reply to]

On 22/11/2009 15:53, Carl-Magnus Björkell wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> As far as I've understood from the wiki and various posts on the web and
> this mailing list, it should be possible to get mythvideo (at least in
> .22) to show .srt subtitles for given videos? Mind you that at least I
> haven't been able to find any definitive answer to this question.
>
> My problem is, as you may have guessed, that I'm not able to show any
> subtitles in mythvideo. What I've tried so far:
>
> * The .srt is the same name as the video. (only different filename
> extension)
> * The "automatically show captions" checkbox has been checked in the
> setup screens
> * I've tried pressing 'T' like crazy when the video has started playing,
> but all I get is "No captions"
> * 'mythfrontend -v playback | grep -i srt' gives me nothing
>
> So, should this even be possible with 0.22-fixes? And if so, could
> anyone give me a hint as to what I'm doing wrong?
>
> As a side question, is the internal player able to handle embedded
> subtitles yet? Such as embedded in .mkv's and the like?
>
> I would really want to get rid of mplayer as and external player and
> just use the internal player, but not being able to se subtitles for
> archived material really is a stopper for me :/
>
>
> -Calle
>
> (P.S I'm sending this again, as apparently thunderbird was a bit to
> bright for _my_ own good and used some of the mail headers from another
> thread, causing the mail to be put in another thread. Sorry for this. D.S)
>
No help here, just a 'me too'. Seeing the same behaviour with .idx and
.sub files too

Dunc
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fatgerman at ntlworld

Nov 22, 2009, 8:39 AM

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Re: .srt subtitles with .22 internal player? [In reply to]

On Sunday 22 Nov 2009 16:11:02 Duncan Brown wrote:
> On 22/11/2009 15:53, Carl-Magnus Björkell wrote:
> > Hey all,
> >
> > As far as I've understood from the wiki and various posts on the web and
> > this mailing list, it should be possible to get mythvideo (at least in
> > .22) to show .srt subtitles for given videos? Mind you that at least I
> > haven't been able to find any definitive answer to this question.
> >
> > My problem is, as you may have guessed, that I'm not able to show any
> > subtitles in mythvideo. What I've tried so far:
> >
> > * The .srt is the same name as the video. (only different filename
> > extension)
> > * The "automatically show captions" checkbox has been checked in the
> > setup screens
> > * I've tried pressing 'T' like crazy when the video has started playing,
> > but all I get is "No captions"
> > * 'mythfrontend -v playback | grep -i srt' gives me nothing
> >
> > So, should this even be possible with 0.22-fixes? And if so, could
> > anyone give me a hint as to what I'm doing wrong?
> >
> > As a side question, is the internal player able to handle embedded
> > subtitles yet? Such as embedded in .mkv's and the like?
> >
> > I would really want to get rid of mplayer as and external player and
> > just use the internal player, but not being able to se subtitles for
> > archived material really is a stopper for me :/
> >
> >
> > -Calle
> >
> > (P.S I'm sending this again, as apparently thunderbird was a bit to
> > bright for _my_ own good and used some of the mail headers from another
> > thread, causing the mail to be put in another thread. Sorry for this. D.S)
> >
> No help here, just a 'me too'. Seeing the same behaviour with .idx and
> .sub files too

If you're desperate, there is a workaround - AviDemux can re-encode the video with the subtitles embedded in the picture. I use this a lot.

Mark

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support at drdos

Nov 22, 2009, 1:15 PM

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Re: .srt subtitles with .22 internal player? [In reply to]

Mark Greenwood wrote:
> On Sunday 22 Nov 2009 16:11:02 Duncan Brown wrote:
>
>
> If you're desperate, there is a workaround - AviDemux can re-encode the video with the subtitles embedded in the picture. I use this a lot.
>

For the time being, I guess I'll stay with .21 fixes. I'm off to see if
there is a ticket on this.

Doug

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robert.mcnamara at gmail

Nov 22, 2009, 1:24 PM

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Re: .srt subtitles with .22 internal player? [In reply to]

On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Doug Lytle <support [at] drdos> wrote:
> Mark Greenwood wrote:
>>
>> On Sunday 22 Nov 2009 16:11:02 Duncan Brown wrote:
>>
>> If you're desperate, there is a workaround - AviDemux can re-encode the
>> video with the subtitles embedded in the picture. I use this a lot.
>>
>
> For the time being, I guess I'll stay with .21 fixes. I'm off to see if
> there is a ticket on this.
>
> Doug

Subtitles in .srt files working properly for me. The things you have
covered above are the key issues. Note that myth does not support
binary external subtitles, just textual ones. I watched a film with
srt subtitles yesterday, in .22.

Robert
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Nov 22, 2009, 2:29 PM

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Re: .srt subtitles with .22 internal player? [In reply to]

Robert McNamara wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Doug Lytle<support [at] drdos> wrote:
>
>
> Subtitles in .srt files working properly for me. The things you have
> covered above are the key issues. Note that myth does not support
> binary external subtitles, just textual ones. I watched a film with
> srt subtitles yesterday, in .22.
>

Great to hear it!

I'm on vacation this week and I planning on giving it a go.

Doug

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carl-magnus.bjorkell at pp

Nov 22, 2009, 2:46 PM

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Re: .srt subtitles with .22 internal player? [In reply to]

On 11/22/2009 11:24 PM, Robert McNamara wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Doug Lytle <support [at] drdos> wrote:
>> Mark Greenwood wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sunday 22 Nov 2009 16:11:02 Duncan Brown wrote:
>>>
>>> If you're desperate, there is a workaround - AviDemux can re-encode the
>>> video with the subtitles embedded in the picture. I use this a lot.
>>>
>>
>> For the time being, I guess I'll stay with .21 fixes. I'm off to see if
>> there is a ticket on this.
>>
>> Doug
>
> Subtitles in .srt files working properly for me. The things you have
> covered above are the key issues. Note that myth does not support
> binary external subtitles, just textual ones. I watched a film with
> srt subtitles yesterday, in .22.
>
> Robert
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OK, So it should be possible... I _am_ trying with regular .srt's, i.e.
Just text files with timestamps in them. I just can't seem to figure out
what I'm supposed to do to get them to actually get loaded into the
player. They are working in mplayer though, so the .srt's themselves are
fine. Any tips as to what might be wrong?

I'm trying this on completely clean .22 install, database and all, so I
can't imagine it being any old configuration messing things up.... or
_should_ there be an old configuration to make things work...? :)

Thanks,
-Calle

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linuxdreas at dslextreme

Nov 22, 2009, 3:16 PM

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Re: .srt subtitles with .22 internal player? [In reply to]

Am Sonntag 22 November 2009 14:46:24 schrieb Carl-Magnus Björkell:

> OK, So it should be possible... I _am_ trying with regular .srt's, i.e.
> Just text files with timestamps in them. I just can't seem to figure out
> what I'm supposed to do to get them to actually get loaded into the
> player. They are working in mplayer though, so the .srt's themselves are
> fine. Any tips as to what might be wrong?

I believe there was a problem with filenames containing more than one full
stop.

For example, a file like myblueberrynights.srt would work, but
my.blueberry.nights.srt would not.

The problem was reported with ticket 6869
(http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/6869) and has been fixed a few days ago.

And of course, videofile name and subtitle file name have to be identical,
except for the file extension.

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Nov 22, 2009, 3:23 PM

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Re: .srt subtitles with .22 internal player? [In reply to]

Carl-Magnus Björkell wrote:
>
> I'm trying this on completely clean .22 install, database and all, so I
> can't imagine it being any old configuration messing things up.... or
> _should_ there be an old configuration to make things work...? :)
>

Permissions?

Doug

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mythtv at duncb

Nov 23, 2009, 1:56 AM

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Re: .srt subtitles with .22 internal player? [In reply to]

On 22/11/2009 23:16, Andreas Schlehahn wrote:
> Am Sonntag 22 November 2009 14:46:24 schrieb Carl-Magnus Björkell:
>
>
>> OK, So it should be possible... I _am_ trying with regular .srt's, i.e.
>> Just text files with timestamps in them. I just can't seem to figure out
>> what I'm supposed to do to get them to actually get loaded into the
>> player. They are working in mplayer though, so the .srt's themselves are
>> fine. Any tips as to what might be wrong?
>>
> I believe there was a problem with filenames containing more than one full
> stop.
>
> For example, a file like myblueberrynights.srt would work, but
> my.blueberry.nights.srt would not.
>
> The problem was reported with ticket 6869
> (http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/6869) and has been fixed a few days ago.
>
> And of course, videofile name and subtitle file name have to be identical,
> except for the file extension.
>
>
Looks like this is my problem. All my video files have multiple dots in them

Is this likely to be ported to the fixes branch?

cheers

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