Guest Posted March 7, 2020 Share Posted March 7, 2020 (edited) Hi, this is my first day with Emby. I have used UMS for years, but they have severely destroyed their subtitles engine, so i am trying emby now. I have a very simple task: I want to stream japanese tv variety shows with external subtitles from my pc to my TV. - I have a video file and an external subtitle file in the same folder. The video alone can be successfully streamed to TV. The sub is in *.ass format. - My Samsung MU8000 TV set is not very good with rendering external subtitles (it actually fails with ass, but is OK with srt, which is a bit weird, because it *should* work with ass), so i want my DLNA server mux the subs while streaming. With default options, Emby just plays the video, no subtitles After changing the subtitles to "always play subtitles" in the settings, the TV will respond with an "unexpected error has occured", after which the video plays at normal, but without subs. Which brings me to the question: are the subtitles muxed by emby while transcoding? or sent externally? I wish to have the first, if its possible. transcode.txt emby.txt Edited March 7, 2020 by nouse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37008 Posted March 7, 2020 Share Posted March 7, 2020 Hi, sometimes, yes. If they are graphic subtitles the server will burn them in with video transcoding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 7, 2020 Share Posted March 7, 2020 Hi, sometimes, yes. If they are graphic subtitles the server will burn them in with video transcoding. Thank you for your quick reply. Does this mean that i cannot force Enby to always mux/"burn in" the subtitles on the fly and stream the subtitled video to the client? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37008 Posted March 7, 2020 Share Posted March 7, 2020 You can, but it's complicated. You'd need to edit the Dlna profile to prevent it from direct playing. Currently we just don't have this very well documented yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 8, 2020 Share Posted March 8, 2020 You can, but it's complicated. You'd need to edit the Dlna profile to prevent it from direct playing. Currently we just don't have this very well documented yet. thank you. in C:\Users\***\AppData\Roaming\Emby-Server\programdata\config\dlna\system, in Samsung Smart TV.xml, there is <SubtitleProfiles> <SubtitleProfile format="srt" method="Embed" /> <SubtitleProfile format="srt" method="External" didlMode="CaptionInfoEx" /> <SubtitleProfile format="ass" method="Embed" container="mkv" /> <SubtitleProfile format="ssa" method="Embed" container="mkv" /> </SubtitleProfiles> Can you point me to the correct way to achieve what i am looking for? Many thanks in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37008 Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 Well you'd have to use the web interface. Try removing some of those embed profiles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37008 Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 Oh wait sorry you want the opposite. So try removing the external profile. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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