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Subtitle support
I just bought the ReadyNas Duo, especially to share media to my Samsung B650 flat TV. Unfortunately when playing movies on the TV through the built-in DLNA feature, like Xvid, DivX or MKV, the subt...
Thanks to chirpa and Skywalker for swift replies.
Interesting. The Serviio software DLNA I mentioned earlier, use a similar scheme. They do by default emulate mkv files as MPEGTS, before they untranscoded are presented to Sony BD's. In this mode, the flatpanel displays the "MPEG" icon, the movie plays, but muxed subtitles don't survive.
The Serviio offers the possibility to fiddle with a configuration script. When I edit the configurationscript, forcing the DLNA to serve mkv in "raw" mode, the flatpanel display the "MKV" icon, the Sony plays video and audio, and subtitles are rendered perfectly. Just as if it came off a USB device.
(The Serviio people says, that the Sony reads streams in a 32kb block non-standard-size-fashion, which is causing troubles playing mkv's over network connections, especially troubles when performing search funtions, hence the MPEGTS emulation as default).
Is there any way to fiddle with the ReadyDLNA settings? Editing a script via ssh login perhaps?
Skywalker wrote:
Well, not quite. We actually never do any transcoding. We present certain files to Sony clients as MPEGTS in order to trick the Sony into playing them. If we present them in their actual format, the Sony will ignore them and not even attempt to play them back -- even though it's capable of doing so. So we claim they're MPEGTS, and the Sony happily plays them.
Interesting. The Serviio software DLNA I mentioned earlier, use a similar scheme. They do by default emulate mkv files as MPEGTS, before they untranscoded are presented to Sony BD's. In this mode, the flatpanel displays the "MPEG" icon, the movie plays, but muxed subtitles don't survive.
The Serviio offers the possibility to fiddle with a configuration script. When I edit the configurationscript, forcing the DLNA to serve mkv in "raw" mode, the flatpanel display the "MKV" icon, the Sony plays video and audio, and subtitles are rendered perfectly. Just as if it came off a USB device.
(The Serviio people says, that the Sony reads streams in a 32kb block non-standard-size-fashion, which is causing troubles playing mkv's over network connections, especially troubles when performing search funtions, hence the MPEGTS emulation as default).
Is there any way to fiddle with the ReadyDLNA settings? Editing a script via ssh login perhaps?
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