LIVE SMP subtitle issues

[BigRoo]

Hey guys,

Sorry i didnt mean to waste anyones time. I had success after ticking the "disable header removal" box.

I dont think your post mentioned this Tech. I tried remux first but didnt produce the result i was after until i ticked the aforementiond box.

[Techflaws]

I haven't mentioned it because this bug has been fixed several firmwares ago and the SMP should play MKVs with or without this setting. However, my MKVToolnix is always set to off so if WD reintroduced this bug in one of their subsequent firmwares I would have missed it.

[BigRoo]

gotcha,

Thanks for your help anyway tech

[WesternTom]

It seems that getting sub-titles to display is the hardest part of using this product (and media players in general, I would guess).

So, rather then trying to debug individual problems I'd like to take a step back and ask what setup will generally make things work best with my new WD TV Live SMP's.

Directly connecting a USB device is probably the simplest setup, but this is not an option for me.

So far, I've been trying to use media servers (PlayOn and Mezzmo) and have had no luck with sub-titles.  I would be interested to know which one works best with WD TV Live SMP, particularly when it comes to sub-titles.

I have not yet tried pulling the files directly from a network share (this seems to me to have some disadvantages) but I will resort to that if I can't get (most) sub-titles working with a media server.

[bhwong]

I also notice that WDTV can't handle non-English subtitles. It display garage text! Please add chinese support!

[Ryu87]

Ok, I never tried chinese subs because I´ve got no need for them but a lot of languages are supported like german, french, russian and some more.

I just don´t understand why people have a problem with PGS. If you copmpress them with zlib they are displayed very fine. Is there any disadvantage compressing them or just leave them uncopressed with video and audio in a m2ts-container?

[bhwong]

There is no problem with some non-English subtitles as long as they are using 1 bytes character set. For chinese and many asian languages, they require 2 bytes character set. Please add this support.

Thanks,

Boon Hong.

[Techflaws]

There is no problem with zlibbed subs being mandatory other than it should not be necessary. And of course it adds another step to the workflow which I'd like to avoid.

[Ryu87]

So the quality of zlibbed Subs isn´t worse than uncompressed PGS?

For me it´s not an additional step because I remux bluray movies anyway to get rid of all unnecessary audio- and sub-languages.

[DervishWD]

Hi Steve,

Sorry but: 

TA-DA! From my experience, MakeMKV will now rip all subtitles and the WDTV Live will play them all, in synch with the audio, and staying on screen for the appropriate amount of time (there were previously some issues with synching).

The MKV Toolnix and MakeMKV are two seperate programs, how does MakeMKV know to disable header removal.... in the future?

I tried your advise and had to apply the setting using MKVmergui GUI ( I believe this is the new name for MKVToolnix) to each movie individually after ripped with MakeMKV.  

Hope you understand what I'm trying to say. Please help.

D.