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by voytech
Wed Dec 18, 2013 6:51 am
Forum: Help and Support
Topic: Soft embed subtitles intstead of full transcode???
Replies: 4
Views: 8265

Re: How to force h264 output or mux subtitles into .MKV form

AFAIK UMS doesn't have the ability to remux into MKV only stream it. I believe the reason is that there are few renderers that support MKV that don't also support M2TS, so for simplicity and compatibility's sake M2TS is used.

Can the M2TS format have soft embedded subtitles? That would be great ...
by voytech
Wed Dec 18, 2013 5:55 am
Forum: Help and Support
Topic: Soft embed subtitles intstead of full transcode???
Replies: 4
Views: 8265

Re: How to force h264 output

Ok thanks. I'm still having playback problems though.

However I am wandering why is there no option to mux subtitles into an MKV file format and stream that to the tv? or is it possible?

I have used a program called "mkvmergegui" to create an .mkv from the original and added subtitles. This only ...
by voytech
Tue Dec 17, 2013 4:59 am
Forum: Help and Support
Topic: Soft embed subtitles intstead of full transcode???
Replies: 4
Views: 8265

Soft embed subtitles intstead of full transcode???

Hi,

Is there a way to force mencoder or other codec used by the program to output in h264 instead of mpg2?

I know my tv supports h264, since it can play the original file when I dont use transcoding, yet when i put subtitles in, ums transcodes to mpg2 which I think is killing my network and ...