External ass subtitle files

[DiksonH]

I am using kodi on a Sony TV which supports external ass file when reading from a usb drive.
However when I play the same video from UMS server, Kodi cannot read the external ass file. Is external ass file supported in UMS?
Internal ass subtitle works fine though.

[SubJunk]

We do support it. In the Kodi config I can see we are using the SubtitleHttpHeader setting which is a specific way to send subtitles, but maybe that only works for certain filetypes on Kodi. Can you please follow the Problem Reporting Guidelines above so I can look at the logs?

[DiksonH]

I was playing "test ass.mkv" and the subtitle does not show.
Debug log attached.

[SubJunk]

Ah I see, so it seems the play request is coming from the Sony TV and not Kodi. Not sure if that is our fault or the TV's:

Started playing test ass.mkv on your KD-43X7500F

and since the TV only supports SRT subtitles, it doesn't try to stream the ASS subtitles.

[SubJunk]

I have created an issue on our tracker for this https://github.com/UniversalMediaServer ... ssues/1639

[DiksonH]

Ah I see, so it seems the play request is coming from the Sony TV and not Kodi. Not sure if that is our fault or the TV's:

Started playing test ass.mkv on your KD-43X7500F

and since the TV only supports SRT subtitles, it doesn't try to stream the ASS subtitles.

It's actually another bug. If kodi is active while I turn off the TV (standby mode) the renderer becomes KD-43X7500 (using xbmc or chromecast ultra.conf). I turn off all transcoding engines as a work around.
I tried restarting kodi, and even when the renderer is kodi, external ass problem still exists.

Another weird thing is when I embed the ass subtitle into test ass.mkv, the subtitle shows correctly as an internal one.

Debug log is attached.