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<blockquote data-quote="Anthony Gagnon" data-source="post: 1284948" data-attributes="member: 157942">[USER=69346]@SimonP[/USER], I thought another moment about the fact that you reiterated that you do need subtitles... I'm not sure when you intend to use MPTVScheduler, but I hope I can safely assume it's not your primary source for viewing content. If it is for travel or a &quot;not all the time&quot; scenario, then perhaps you want to look into software called Handbrake. Google: handbrake batch convert, for adding subtitles directly to your videos (You may not be able to turn them on and off, but I think having them on all your videos seems fine). Doing this for as many files as you want subtitles for, then making an XML file for each of the filenames and using MediaPortal's TV-Server Configuration to import the new titles and then that should do the trick for MPTVScheduler. If you need to do this all the time, then you could set up some programming script to do this automatically, but that's getting pretty far down the rabbit hole for a work around for this problem. To me, it seems unlikely you can get someone to update the app after the developer retired, but I could be wrong.If a developer picks up this app, I was hoping for commercial skip capability too. That way I can save on&nbsp; cellphone data when watching recordings with commercials. The time stamps are there when watching locally, so maybe this can be done.But I digress... Feel free to private message me if you're going to try Handbrake and get stuck. I have only &quot;burned in&quot; subtitles (not closed captions) for single files, but I'm reasonably confident that there's a way to get this to work for you.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Anthony Gagnon, post: 1284948, member: 157942"] [USER=69346]@SimonP[/USER], I thought another moment about the fact that you reiterated that you do need subtitles... I'm not sure when you intend to use MPTVScheduler, but I hope I can safely assume it's not your primary source for viewing content. If it is for travel or a "not all the time" scenario, then perhaps you want to look into software called Handbrake. Google: handbrake batch convert, for adding subtitles directly to your videos (You may not be able to turn them on and off, but I think having them on all your videos seems fine). Doing this for as many files as you want subtitles for, then making an XML file for each of the filenames and using MediaPortal's TV-Server Configuration to import the new titles and then that should do the trick for MPTVScheduler. If you need to do this all the time, then you could set up some programming script to do this automatically, but that's getting pretty far down the rabbit hole for a work around for this problem. To me, it seems unlikely you can get someone to update the app after the developer retired, but I could be wrong. If a developer picks up this app, I was hoping for commercial skip capability too. That way I can save on cellphone data when watching recordings with commercials. The time stamps are there when watching locally, so maybe this can be done. But I digress... Feel free to private message me if you're going to try Handbrake and get stuck. I have only "burned in" subtitles (not closed captions) for single files, but I'm reasonably confident that there's a way to get this to work for you. [/QUOTE]

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