New DVB subtitle filter (TsReader based) (2 Viewers)

[ziphnor]

. 'Transport Stream files' is that non-compressed files taking up a lot of space?

No, its the exact same video and audio as in the DVR-MS. In fact its the same data the broadcaster sends, its not re-encoded in away etc. There might be a little bit of storage overhead due to the extra data stored with the audio and video however.

Also when will MP be recording this information along with the DVR-MS file - is it the DVR-MS format that can't contain subtitles - in that case would it be possible to create some kind of .srt, .sub etc. file with the same name as the DVR-MS file? Let MP be able to show data from these files per default and this experimental? filter would be an addon to create the subtitles files? That way everyone could bennefit - i'm afraid to try and download some nightly build of the tv-server setup to keep up with these changes.

I dont think DVR-MS files can contain subtitle streams, additionally i am not sure the SBE that creates DVR-MS files supporst recording the necessary information. Recording Transport Streams is much better as it allows you to store and work with the original broadcasted material (ie for example recording a whole transponder with just one tuner). There are no plans to create anything like what you describe. When the TV server is finished everybody will have the benefit of this. Adding subtitle generation to the old recording engine would be a lot of work, and would have a much bigger potential for bugs than what we are working on here. It makes little sense to keep working on two different recording engines.

EDIT: Didnt notice that tourettes had already replied. Well then you get the benefit of two replies

 

[SciDoctor]

SVN 17329 Logs attached.

Problems with subtitles causing the MP GUI to hard lock requiring end process from taks manager.

Affects timeshifitng and file playback from MYTV and MYVIDEOS.

This seems to be linked with turnning on/off SUBS from MP GUI and not from toggle key 'l'.

The subs don't come back on using MP GUI control 'y' and the MP exe soon after becomes unresponsive.

 

[tourettes]

SVN 17329 Logs attached.

Problems with subtitles causing the MP GUI to hard lock requiring end process from taks manager.

Affects timeshifitng and file playback from MYTV and MYVIDEOS.

This seems to be linked with turnning on/off SUBS from MP GUI and not from toggle key 'l'.

The subs don't come back on using MP GUI control 'y' and the MP exe soon after becomes unresponsive.

I wasn't able to reproduce the hang, maybe it's not subtitle related at all?

Also the subtitles did come back after enabling them in the OSD. I just needed to reselect the language from the OSD itself. It's indeed a bug, but so minor that at least currently I have no plans to dig into MP's code and try to fix it.

 

[ziphnor]

I can see an error from the SubtitleSelector in those logs (it being asked about the subtitle language when no subtitle is set). I will take a look at some point. I never even knew that there was a GUI for the subtitles

 

[tourettes]

I can see an error from the SubtitleSelector in those logs (it being asked about the subtitle language when no subtitle is set). I will take a look at some point. I never even knew that there was a GUI for the subtitles

Me neither

 

[SciDoctor]

Thanks for the feedback.

The GUI subtitle selection; I have used this successfuly since the testing phase started months ago, only the last couple of SVN's have been a problem.

 

[ziphnor]

SciDoctor, i am not quite sure what problem you have been seeing, but there was a problem with the subtitle selector which is also used by TSReaderPlayer to report what subtitles are available. In the context menu (or whatever its called), all subtitle options were displayed with the same language. I have fixed this now (SVN 17339+).

Im not sure if this might have been related to your problem or not, but you can always hope At least this will solve the problem that lead to your log containing the error messages i mentioned earlier.

If you can reproduce the problem you had on a specific .ts file it would be most helpful, as we can then perhaps reproduce the problem as well using that same video file.

 

[Hojou]

Hey thanks for the info. I was sure this DVR-MS format was better and i wasn't aware it was going to be abandoned in the future MP/TVEngine releases. This is great news and i guess i shoulod go download TVEngine 3 then if the subtitles are already working there.

Now all i need is make this crappy tuner card work in my machine again. It's one of them Medion hybrid cards - it worked for me in 0.2.2.0 but since i upgraded to 0.2.3.0 it stopped working - i even saved the CaptureCards.xml with my own 'hack' for my tv-card in it - it just won't work in 0.2.3.0 - wow talk about being off topic sorry about that.

 

[djcad]

Is there anyway to get this new filter on the stable 2.3.0?
I lack subs on some of my channels.

 

[tourettes]

Is there anyway to get this new filter on the stable 2.3.0?
I lack subs on some of my channels.

Unfortunately no as there are changes also in MP code.:sorry: