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on-the-fly subtitle streaming

What's this? Does it avoid transcoding? Sounds interesting!

I see that the FFmpeg/subtitles commit is back. Can't wait to try this out!

I'm looking forward to 2.3.0 and trying subtitles with FFmpeg.

Thanks, SubJunk.

And thanks for UMS! It's now a rare file that doesn't play for me. I've banished the transcode folder.

I simply emptied the default settings having both "Subtitles language priority" and "Audio/subtitles language priority" and "Forced language" -fields completely empty I have problems with anime with the fields blank. I have a series in AAC with Hi10PAVC encoding with embedded English subtitles. If ...

Sorry for the newb question.

I transcode a lot of .mp4s with AAC audio due to subtitles. I was wondering if re-encoding a lossy AAC track into AC-3 results in more loss of information (more lossy, I guess)?

Thanks.

I'm able to play a movie with external .srt subtitles that has embedded subtitles in a language I can't understand. I have it set up like you presented as movie.mkv with movie.srt.

I must admit that I've been fortunate and that I'd never had external subtitles not load (after adjusting the settings in UMS). I do get the occasional fast disappearing subtitles though. But this I mean if there is a complicated line that should stay on the screen for 10 seconds (I'll look at the ....

One thing I noticed as well is that, the default settings has *,* in the audio/subtitle priority which breaks the patch to prefer extenal subtitles to internal. I got the patch to work after blanking out *,* and leaving the audio/subtitle priority field blank.

I think this is fixed in 2.2.2 with SB47. 2.2.1 gave me tons of those errors repeated in the log, but SB47 gives one mention per file transcoded without the repeated spam on the 5 or so files I've tired.