[mythtv-users] Internal Player DVD Subtitles

[Nick Rout]

On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 8:51 AM, John Finlay <finlay at moeraki.com> wrote:
> On 2/26/2010 9:30 AM, John Baab wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Vince Coen<vbcoen at btconnect.com>  wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Friday 26 Feb 2010, John Baab wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> This is one issue I noticed recently with the internal player.  While
>>>> watching Taken and Angels&  Demons, there are parts of the film where
>>>> people talk in foreign languages and subtitles should appear.  By
>>>> default they do not, togglign on the subtitles gave me success with
>>>> one of the films but not with the other, it also left me watching the
>>>> entire film with subtitles.  Has anyone ever experienced this?
>>>>
>>>
>>> This (in the UK) seems to depend on channel and programme.
>>>
>>> I often turn on subtitles (unless it get in the way of the picture or it
>>> lags).
>>>
>>> On foreign language firms, I have not noticed (generally) an issue here.
>>> Watched Apocalypto and that worked as expected but the odd film/programme
>>> did
>>> not and I'm guessing it has something to do with the transmission
>>> procedures
>>> in place by the station or transmitter.
>>>
>>> The fact that it works on some seems to me, to not indicate a problem
>>> with
>>> mythtv but short of complaining to the channel's tech support I can't see
>>> how
>>> to resolve.
>>>
>>> Vince
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>>
>> Well these aren't foreign films, they are just films that happen to
>> have bits of foreign language in them.  I suppose I could try to play
>> straight from the DVD to verify it behave the same.  If others haven't
>> noticed the issue then it may be an issue on my end and not with
>> internal player.
>>
>
> When I played Angels and Demons straight from the DVD I noticed the same
> problem of "missing" "translation" subtitles early in the film. The
> translations appeared if the english subtitles were enabled. I assume it's
> the way the DVD was done and nothing to do with mythtv's internal player.
>

There are times when it seems the creator does not want you to know
what is being said in the foreign language. I am thinking of The Wire,
where when I watch the dvd rip i watch with subtitles as I can't
understand what a lot of the characters (particularly the drug
dealers) are saying. There are subs for all the english talking, but
when some of the characters are talking russian or greek [1], there
are no subs. I guess we just aren't supposed to know what they are
saying, and it's part of the drama that we english speakers don't know
what the foreigners are saying.

[1] yeah I am currently on series 2 :) Great show.