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Idea for Improvement on 360 - Embedded Sub Detection


scottie

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I had issues watching several mkv's in a row the other day, usually I have no issues at all on my 360 extender with MBC. It turns out it was because of the well-known Xbox 360 Embedded Subtitles issue.

The issues got me wondering if it would be feasible to, firstly detect that you are running on a 360 and not a pc, and secondly examine the server metadata about a given video to know if it's an mkv with embedded subtitles or not. If those things are possible, it’d be nice to disable/grey out/indicate there’s no chance in hell that this video will play correctly. Or, maybe even ask the server to transcode it to not have embedded subtitles and then play the transcoded version.

 

I've got no idea if any of that is even vaguely possible tho.

 

ebr, I realise that you've said elsewhere that aren't real interested in dealing with the quirks of the 360, and fair enough, but I thought I’d throw it out there just in case it turned out to be a pretty simple thing to achieve.

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