Include subtitle stream, without hardcoding into video

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abcd
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Include subtitle stream, without hardcoding into video

Post by abcd »

How do I setup UMS such that subtitles are not hardcoded into the video stream, but rather just sent along as a subtitle stream? Right now, UMS does both, which results in the subtitles showing up twice on screen if I enable the subtitle stream on the renderer. I'd rather just let the renderer decide if an how to show the subs.
Nadahar
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Re: Include subtitle stream, without hardcoding into video

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I think that must be a bug, it's supposed to do either or. This is decided by the renderer configuration file.
abcd
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Re: Include subtitle stream, without hardcoding into video

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Nadahar wrote: Mon Jan 22, 2018 9:45 am I think that must be a bug, it's supposed to do either or. This is decided by the renderer configuration file.
What value in the conf controls this?
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valib
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Re: Include subtitle stream, without hardcoding into video

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Read the DefaultRenderer.conf and set in your renderer.conf the value of

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SupportedExternalSubtitlesFormats=
abcd
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Re: Include subtitle stream, without hardcoding into video

Post by abcd »

I fixed it by adding:

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StreamSubsForTranscodedVideo = true
This does however introduce a new problem: subtitles disappear after seeking in a transcoded video, see this post.
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