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[bob]

Bob,
Just FYI. MC 15.0.141 plus new Samsung FW (came out today) - still no subs... : (
Everything else seems to be working fine.
Thanks for helping,

--max

DLNA sure has been keeping me busy lately!
Are your video files on a the local hard drive of the MC server or somewhere else (like a network share)?

[maxxsid]

I tried it both ways.
Currently, DLNA Server runs on my media server where all media files are stored on a local hard drive (which is also shared to my home network.
Thanks!
--max

[bob]

I tried it both ways.
Currently, DLNA Server runs on my media server where all media files are stored on a local hard drive (which is also shared to my home network.
Thanks!
--max

Haven't forgotten this, just working on a LONG list...

[bob]

Made a change in version 15.0.147 that might help.

[maxxsid]

will test tonite. thanks!

Made a change in version 15.0.147 that might help.

[maxxsid]

No.. Still no subtitles. (build 149)
: (

[bob]

Bob,
Just FYI. MC 15.0.141 plus new Samsung FW (came out today) - still no subs... : (
Everything else seems to be working fine.
Thanks for helping,

--max

Back to working on subs again, I found some interesting info on the 5500 and subtitles, I wonder if it applies to your situation?

The second solution was SRT subtitles with file named the same as MKV file. At the beginning I failed with this one as well (tried firmware update) but I read on some forums that people say it works fine so I give it a next try and I found the solution. Firstly I thought its encoding stuff - I converted the file to many formats (utf-8, ISO-8859-X)... nothing, then I figured out that the thing spoiled everything was SRT formatting inside the file (like font color or italic like {Y:i} at the beginning of the line), unfortunately each SRT file had this on the first line of subtitles so I did not see subs from the very beginning. I deleted all {*} and right now everything works fine... FINALLY

[maxxsid]

Bob - thanks for the info!
I'll check for srt formatting.
But just to remind you - subs worked fine when I used Serviio as DLNA server.
thnx,
--max

Back to working on subs again, I found some interesting info on the 5500 and subtitles, I wonder if it applies to your situation?

[bob]

Bob - thanks for the info!
I'll check for srt formatting.
But just to remind you - subs worked fine when I used Serviio as DLNA server.
thnx,
--max

Sorry, that was kind of a DUH...
We did get a 6500 this morning so I'm going to start testing on that...

Bob

[maxxsid]

Great!

We did get a 6500 this morning so I'm going to start testing on that...

I checked my srt files - they don't have any extra formatting lines...

--max

[bob]

GOT IT!

It'll be in the next build...

[maxxsid]

Cool! Thanks a bunch!

GOT IT!

It'll be in the next build...

[maxxsid]

Bob -
I can confirm - the subs now do work. Thanks for fixing this!
The bad news is that now some of my video files do not play via DLNA - I didn't have a chance to troubleshoot yet - probably something minor with the settings.

--max

[bob]

Bob -
I can confirm - the subs now do work. Thanks for fixing this!
The bad news is that now some of my video files do not play via DLNA - I didn't have a chance to troubleshoot yet - probably something minor with the settings.

--max

We added "convert when necessary" as the default for video so if your videos don't need converting you should turn that to "never convert"

[maxxsid]

Yes, I figured that was the culprit. Videos do play when the "convert when necessary" is off. But is it supposed to work? Conversion?

We added "convert when necessary" as the default for video so if your videos don't need converting you should turn that to "never convert"

[bob]

Yes, I figured that was the culprit. Videos do play when the "convert when necessary" is off. But is it supposed to work? Conversion?

Yes but the "convert when necessary" is tuned mostly to the PS3 and xbox 360. If the renderer is something else, it will only assume mpeg2's will play without conversion. The important thing is what the encoder is set to. Most devices should be able to play video transcoded to the high bandwidth mpeg2 stream or the dvd mpeg2 stream.
The xbox requires wmv transcoding, others can use mpeg4 however the mpeg4 conversions aren't playable until the conversion finishes.

[maxxsid]

Ok. Thanks for clarification! wasn't clear for me...

Yes but the "convert when necessary" is tuned mostly to the PS3 and xbox 360. If the renderer is something else, it will only assume mpeg2's will play without conversion. The important thing is what the encoder is set to. Most devices should be able to play video transcoded to the high bandwidth mpeg2 stream or the dvd mpeg2 stream.
The xbox requires wmv transcoding, others can use mpeg4 however the mpeg4 conversions aren't playable until the conversion finishes.