FR: Android - Default to Play with subtitles and/or forced transcode

[bill the lizard 3]

I am using an older Transformer table (TF101) for viewing frequently. I bought the app because the interface interface is much nicer, but, it will not play back 1080p content I discovered after much trial and error. I recognize this is a hardware limitation. (1080p content technically plays but very badly if I use external MX player).

 

1. So my options currently are Advanced Play->select undefined subtitles (there are none)->Play to force a trans-code which comes out 720p. Yay, but there is no resume option.

 

or 

 

2. Turn the default bit-rate on WIFi/Lan way down to ensure all the rips trigger the threshold and trans-code. This is especially tough because of Pixar movies. They nicely encode to very low  rates.

 

Option 1 forces me to start over every time we watch something, and reacts very poorly to jumping ahead. Plus it have to set it every time. This is a bit whiny i know.

Option 2 yields poor quality streams because I need to set the bit rate so low. I am not limited by bandwidth here just resolution.

 

I recognize this may be a niche situation but don't a lot of older devices have this limitation?  Anyway it would be nice to have a "default advanced play with subtitles" on client settings to force this trans-code or just a setting to "force trans-code on the device".

 

Also it would be nice to have a resume option if I need to use the advanced play method. This seems like it would be pretty easy to add. Cheers

 

 

[Luke 37071]

We have new subtitle settings on the server to check out. Then once Android supports them I think you'll be very happy