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dcubox1

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Subtitles on Core but not MD
« on: May 04, 2010, 11:06:00 pm »
Ok have a strange one,

I have a few video files that have subtitles, embedded not seperate files....
When I play the video on My Hybrid I get the Subs however playing the files on any other MD gives me just the movie with no Subs!!
Any ideas why??

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Re: Subtitles on Core but not MD
« Reply #1 on: May 05, 2010, 12:43:47 am »
Which kind of files? mkv? are they renamed to m2ts? are the .mplayer/config (under core and md at /root/.mplayer/config) the same?

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Re: Subtitles on Core but not MD
« Reply #2 on: May 05, 2010, 11:26:28 am »
Which kind of files? mkv? are they renamed to m2ts? are the .mplayer/config (under core and md at /root/.mplayer/config) the same?


Yes mkv files renamed to m2ts, not sure if the config files are the same right now, dont have acces to my core but ill check later, is there a setting in the config for subs? I would like to know this as I have had a question on a previous thread about how to get rid of embedded subs and looks like this "blooper" in my setup has pointed me in the right direction!!

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Re: Subtitles on Core but not MD
« Reply #3 on: May 05, 2010, 04:26:42 pm »
I would like to know this as I have had a question on a previous thread about how to get rid of embedded subs and looks like this "blooper" in my setup has pointed me in the right direction!!

This should do it:
http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Subtitles_Support

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Re: Subtitles on Core but not MD
« Reply #4 on: May 05, 2010, 10:38:49 pm »
http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Subtitles_Support - this wiki applies to xine.

m2ts is played by mplayer, so, the configs are in /root/.mplayer/config (c/h and md) (used by root) and /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf (systemwide for c/h and md).

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Re: Subtitles on Core but not MD
« Reply #5 on: May 05, 2010, 11:57:43 pm »
http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Subtitles_Support - this wiki applies to xine.

m2ts is played by mplayer, so, the configs are in /root/.mplayer/config (c/h and md) (used by root) and /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf (systemwide for c/h and md).

Ya I guessed as much when I noticed that it was having no bearing changing the files :)

So looking at the mplayer.conf file the only thing that refers to subs in it is
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# DVD: Display English subtitles if available.
#slang = en

And from what I gather this is only the language settings!! nothing to do with turning on and off subs :(

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Re: Subtitles on Core but not MD
« Reply #6 on: May 06, 2010, 04:07:47 am »
This is my /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf

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dcerouter_1008240:/# cat /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf
#                                                                                 
# MPlayer configuration file                                                     
#                                                                                 
# Configuration files are read system-wide from /usr/local/etc/mplayer.conf       
# and per user from ~/.mplayer/config, where per-user settings override           
# system-wide settings, all of which are overrriden by the command line.         
#                                                                                 
# The configuration file settings are the same as the command line               
# options without the preceding '-'.                                             
#                                                                                 
# See the CONFIGURATION FILES section in the man page                             
# for a detailed description of the syntax.                                       


##################
# video settings #
##################

# Specify vdpau codecs when using -vo vdpau.
#[vo.vdpau]                                 
#vc=ffmpeg12vdpau,ffwmv3vdpau,ffvc1vdpau,ffh264vdpau,ffodivxvdpau,

# Specify default video driver (see -vo help for a list).
#vo=xv                                                   

# Use SDL video with the aalib subdriver by default.
#vo = sdl:aalib                                     

# FBdev driver:
#             
# mode to use (read from fb.modes)
#fbmode = 640x480-120             
#                                 
# location of the fb.modes file   
#fbmodeconfig = /etc/fb.modes     

# Specify your monitor timings for the vesa and fbdev video output drivers.
# See /etc/X11/XF86Config for timings. Be careful; if you specify settings
# that exceed the capabilities of your monitor, you may damage it.         
#                                                                         
# horizontal frequency range (k stands for 1000)                           
#monitor-hfreq = 31.5k-50k,70k                                             
#                                                                         
# vertical frequency range                                                 
#monitor-vfreq = 50-90                                                     
#                                                                         
# dotclock (or pixelclock) range (m stands for 1000000)                   
#monitor-dotclock = 30M-300M                                               

# Start in fullscreen mode by default.
#fs=yes                               

# Change to a different videomode when going fullscreen.
#vm=yes                                                 

# Override the autodetected color depth, may need 'vm=yes' as well.
#bpp=0                                                             

# Enable software scaling (powerful CPU needed) for video output
# drivers that do not support hardware scaling.                 
#zoom=yes                                                       

# standard monitor size, with square pixels
#monitoraspect=4:3                         

# Use this for a widescreen monitor, non-square pixels.
#monitoraspect=16:9                                   

# Keep the player window on top of all other windows.
#ontop=yes                                           


##################
# audio settings #
##################

# Specify default audio driver (see -ao help for a list).
#ao=oss                                                 

# Use SDL audio driver with the esd subdriver by default.
#ao = sdl:esd                                           

# Specify the mixer device.
#mixer = /dev/mixer       

# Resample the sound to 44100Hz with the lavcresample audio filter.
#af=lavcresample=44100                                             

# Output audio to S/PDIF
#ao=alsa:device=spdif   
#ac=hwac3,hwdts,hwmpa, 

##################
# other settings #
##################

# Pretend to be Window Media Player.
# Fixes playback when playlist and media file use the same URL.
#user-agent=NSPlayer/4.1.0.3856                               

# Pretend to be Quicktime
# Fixes playback for apple.com/trailers redirects
#user-agent="QuickTime"                         

# Drop frames to preserve audio/video sync.
#framedrop = yes                           

# Specify your preferred skin here (skins are searched for in
# /usr/local/share/mplayer/skins/<name> and ~/.mplayer/skins/<name>).
#skin = Abyss                                                       

# Resample the font alphamap.
# 0     plain white fonts   
# 0.75  very narrow black outline (default)
# 1     narrow black outline               
# 10    bold black outline                 
#ffactor = 0.75                           

# cache settings
#               
# Use 8MB input cache by default.
#cache = 8192                   
#                               
# Prefill 20% of the cache before starting playback.
#cache-min = 20.0                                   
#                                                   
# Prefill 50% of the cache before restarting playback after the cache emptied.
#cache-seek-min = 50                                                         

# DVD: Display English subtitles if available.
#slang = en                                   

# DVD: Play English audio tracks if available.
#alang = en                                   

###################
# DVDNAV Settings #
###################
[protocol.dvdnav] 
#vc=ffmpeg12,     
#mouse-movements=yes
#nocache=yes       

# You can also include other configuration files.
#include = /path/to/the/file/you/want/to/include
#                                               
#

# Font encoding
#subfont-encoding=unicode
# Subtitle file encoding
#utf8=yes
# Resample the font alphamap (10: bold black outline)
ffactor=10
# Subtitle position (100: as low as possible)
subpos=100
# Subtitle alignment at its position (2: bottom)
subalign=2
# Font size (2: proportional to movie width)
subfont-autoscale=2
# Font blur radius (default: 2)
subfont-blur=1.0
# font outline thickness (default: 2)
subfont-outline=1.0
# Autoscale coefficient of the subtitle (default: 5)
subfont-text-scale=3.0
# OSD
#====
# Autoscale coefficient of the OSD elements (default: 6)
subfont-osd-scale=3.0


This is my /root/.mplayer/config

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dcerouter_1008240:/# cat /root/.mplayer/config
## Set Video output to VDPAU and use appropriate codecs                       
vo=vdpau                                                                     
vc=ffh264vdpau,ffmpeg12vdpau,ffwmv3vdpau,ffvc1vdpau                           
## Set AC3/DTS PASSTHROUGH and ON THE FLY AC3 RE-ENCODING FOR 6 CHANNEL AAC FILES
#ao=alsa:device=hw=0.1                                                           
#afm=hwac3                                                                       
#channels=6                                                                     
#af=scaletempo,lavcac3enc=1:640:3                                               


# Font encoding
#subfont-encoding=unicode
# Subtitle file encoding
#utf8=yes
# Resample the font alphamap (10: bold black outline)
ffactor=10
# Subtitle position (100: as low as possible)
subpos=100
# Subtitle alignment at its position (2: bottom)
subalign=2
# Font size (2: proportional to movie width)
subfont-autoscale=2
# Font blur radius (default: 2)
subfont-blur=1.0
# font outline thickness (default: 2)
subfont-outline=1.0
# Autoscale coefficient of the subtitle (default: 5)
subfont-text-scale=2.5
# OSD
#====
# Autoscale coefficient of the OSD elements (default: 6)
subfont-osd-scale=2.5

You can try using both as example or use whatever you need from them.

More on this you can find at: http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-77329.html