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Feature request: Support for XSUB generation

Forum: Open Discussion

Creator: Radovan Skolnik

Created: 2009-11-13

Updated: 2013-05-30

Radovan Skolnik - 2009-11-13

I found that PS3 (and other players) now support XSUB streams for subtitles - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DivX#DivX_Subtitles_.28XSUB.29 It would be great to add support for on-the-fly XSUB addition from .srt or .idx/.sub files - probably via transcoding options. It basically means to create additional stream holding the subtitles…

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Jin - 2009-12-03

If you transcode the whole video, you can probably do this using VLC and an appropriate transcoding script.

However, with transcoding you lose seeking support, so I suggest to insert the subtitles outside of MediaTomb before adding the media.

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Radovan Skolnik - 2009-12-03

That is something I do not want to do - I have a lots of movies with subtitles in .srt/.idx+.sub that I would like to be visible when viewing on PS3.

AFAIK VLC does not support adding XSUB. Now that I think about it, this should probably be an enhancement request for VLC or mencoder or …

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