[mythtv-users] Transcode loses subtitles
Michael T. Dean
mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Thu Feb 8 17:06:23 UTC 2007
On 01/26/2007 04:16 AM, John Pilkington wrote:
> osma ahvenlampi wrote:
>
>> On 1/25/07, ThomP Pontoppidan <thomp3 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Is it possible to use the transcode job and keep subtitles, and if so,
>>> how is it done?
>>>
>> No. The transcode loses the DVB subtitle stream in both lossless and
>> MPEG-4 transcodes. In fact, the mere existence of that stream (or
>> perhaps a second voice channel, I haven't really investigated) screws
>> up transcodes totally on my 0.20-fixes installation and those Finnish
>> channels (YLE) which use DVB subtitling.
>>
> There are clearly (at least) two reasons for using mythtranscaode: to
> apply a cutlist, or to clean a recording to be saved in standard DVD
> format. Accepting that it would be difficult to retain subtitles for
> DVD, isn't there a case for a lossless transcode that retains all the
> streams in the original broadcast but simply applies a cutlist?
>
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/231851#231851
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/231852#231852
Mike
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