MKV Subtitles problems in Mediaportal (1 Viewer)

Dannydeman

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I can't figure out how to get subtitles to work on MKV with CoreAVC in Mediaportal 1.0.
DirectVobFilter auto-loading (or however it's called), will crash mediaportal when I try to play a movie or just won't play any movie I choose. The FFDshow RAW trick doesn't do anything at all.
So I'm kinda out of options? I even did try to enable VSFilter inside the combinedcodecpack, but even that doesn't work.

Is there any way?
 

Dannydeman

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Well, because external subs were not working, I merged them with the MKV with mkvmerge. Problem is that the sub's won't show, but Mediaportal are detecting them because I can choose it from the subtitle menu. Seems like the text is transparant. When I select the merged sub in mediaportal, the movie hangs for like 2 seconds and continues to play. Just no subtitles.
 

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    Have you set up font\colour and enabled in this screen.

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    Dannydeman

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    Hey thanks for that SAF stuff, seems that merged subtitles are working. Just no way for me to enable external MKV subtitles though. I really don't want to use FFdshow as videoplayer (external subs work with that, but my mediacenter laptop is already on the edge of playing fullHD, so CoreAVC is a must.)
     

    hoborg

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    Hey thanks for that SAF stuff, seems that merged subtitles are working. Just no way for me to enable external MKV subtitles though. I really don't want to use FFdshow as videoplayer (external subs work with that, but my mediacenter laptop is already on the edge of playing fullHD, so CoreAVC is a must.)

    Becouse some MP issue, using MKV+external subtitles is not possible with DirectVobSub. You need to put them inside MKV (use MKVmerge tool) to make them work.
     

    lylewinton

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    I just solved this problem for my MediaPortal installation (MP v1.0.0.0, ffdshow tryouts revision 1355 from Combined Community Codec Pack). Found this article with a section on how to fix OGG subtitle problems and it also worked for MKV subtitles...

    http://users.vic.chariot.net.au/~mitreski/mediaportal codec guide v.2.pdf

    See page 5. It effectively says the following:

    Under FFDShow “video decoder configuration” turn off "Subtitles" and disable "Vobsub".

    Within "Mediaportal Configuration"...
    Under "movie/video player" make sure "MPV Decoder Filter" is selected for Mpeg-2 and "ffdshow" is selected for H.264.
    Under "movie/video post processing" add and enable "directvobsub" (not the auto loading one). Then for the filter properties under "General" tab make sure "load when needed", "external" and "embedded" are all selected.
     

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    Thanks!

    Thanks for that summary lylewinton! Solved my problems too - I finally have working subtitles!
     

    kszabo

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    Becouse some MP issue, using MKV+external subtitles is not possible with DirectVobSub. You need to put them inside MKV (use MKVmerge tool) to make them work.

    I disagree. I have external (.srt) and internal subtitles working with .mkvs, with MP 1.0.0 and 1.0.1. Even at the same time. Maybe I am only lucky (what I don´t think).
     

    hoborg

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    Becouse some MP issue, using MKV+external subtitles is not possible with DirectVobSub. You need to put them inside MKV (use MKVmerge tool) to make them work.

    I disagree. I have external (.srt) and internal subtitles working with .mkvs, with MP 1.0.0 and 1.0.1. Even at the same time. Maybe I am only lucky (what I don´t think).

    Until you use MPC+HC decoder and try to play DXVA compatible video + external subtitles = black screen.
     

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