[mythtv-users] No subtitles in MythTV 0.27

Jim Stichnoth stichnot at gmail.com
Mon Nov 18 14:23:53 UTC 2013


On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 6:09 AM, JCA <1.41421 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have just built MythTV 0.27 (and all of its plugins) from source for
> Slackware 14.1. Things seem to work so far, with one rather irritating
> exception.
>
> I have a collection of Matroska files, many of them with embedded
> subtitles. When I play them under MythTV, the MythTV plugin for the job
> plays them correctly, and identifies the embedded subtitles. However, when
> I enable the subtitles they are never displayed, despite the fact that the
> internal MythTV player acknowledges that they are on. I tried with mplayer
> adn the subtitles are indeed displayed without any problems.
>
> Any idea what maybe going on? Might I be missing something in my MythTV
> that prevents from displaying subtitles?
>

Most likely, you don't have libass enabled.  Check the configure output.
 You will need a package like libass-devel to be installed on your system.

Jim
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