silklve 0 Posted May 9, 2020 Posted May 9, 2020 Hi guys, thanks for emby released on roku. It's cool but for one imperfect. It doesn't support Japanese so that if my movies info contain Japanese, it won't display well. What i wish is that no matter what kind of display language the emby is, all the languages in the movies info can be displayed well. Hopefully that will come soon. Many thanks.
speechles 2010 Posted May 9, 2020 Posted May 9, 2020 (edited) Hi, what text is not Japanese? We presently base our fonts on Roboto which doesn't support it. We would need to use Noto for those languages. But Roku limits package size to 4MB. It is hard to fit Noto into that. This is why those languages are presently missing. Also missing are Right-to-Left languages such as Arabic because Roku doesn't support that presentation. Also missing are Korean, Japanese and Chinese but that is because it is hard to fit the font into that package size limit of 4MB. See here: https://fonts.google.com/?subset=japanese We did discuss this before but were never sure of the audience for those languages dependent on Noto. It is hard to devote resources and time when you do not know the audience size that would take advantage of the new languages. It is also hard because it would likely need to be a stand-alone app for each language Japanese, Korean, Chinese.. like an Emby-Japan, Emby-Korea, Emby-China, and then the main Emby app on Roku. It would be confusing but that is likely the only way to do it and keep under that 4MB limit. Edited May 9, 2020 by speechles
silklve 0 Posted May 9, 2020 Author Posted May 9, 2020 We presently base our fonts on Roboto which doesn't support it. We would need to use Noto for those languages. But Roku limits package size to 4MB. It is hard to fit Noto into that. This is why those languages are presently missing. Also missing are Right-to-Left languages such as Arabic because Roku doesn't support that presentation. Also missing are Korean, Japanese and Chinese but that is because it is hard to fit the font into that package size limit of 4MB. See here: https://fonts.google.com/?subset=japanese We did discuss this before but were never sure of the audience for those languages dependent on Noto. It is hard to devote resources and time when you do not know the audience size that would take advantage of the new languages. It is also hard because it would likely need to be a stand-alone app for each language Japanese, Korean, Chinese.. like an Emby-Japan, Emby-Korea, Emby-China, and then the main Emby app on Roku. It would be confusing but that is likely the only way to do it and keep under that 4MB limit. ok, i got it. and one more thing is that whether emby android version support all the languages including nato?
Luke 40068 Posted May 9, 2020 Posted May 9, 2020 The Android app should have no problem with this. Thanks.
silklve 0 Posted May 9, 2020 Author Posted May 9, 2020 The Android app should have no problem with this. Thanks. cool, i bought a roku TV and i didn't image the situation before. lol
Waymo 0 Posted June 29, 2022 Posted June 29, 2022 As an new Emby user on Raku I have to admit I am bit surprised to see all my movies metadata in Japanese and Chinese are empty/marble. I am wondering if we have any plan to address this issue?
Luke 40068 Posted June 29, 2022 Posted June 29, 2022 1 hour ago, Waymo said: As an new Emby user on Raku I have to admit I am bit surprised to see all my movies metadata in Japanese and Chinese are empty/marble. I am wondering if we have any plan to address this issue? Curious what it looks like. Can you show a screenshot? Thanks.
kowarimasenka 0 Posted June 20, 2024 Posted June 20, 2024 On 6/28/2022 at 9:48 PM, Luke said: Curious what it looks like. Can you show a screenshot? Thanks. Hey all, I see that this thread is quite old so apologies if I should have just made a new one. Anyway, I recently set up my Emby server and was quite surprised to see that Japanese text doesn't work at all on the Emby Roku app. Which is a shame, as having Japanese subtitles working is pretty crucial for my use case, and I had no idea of this limitation when I bought my Roku nor when I subscribed to Emby Premiere. I guess it's on me for not trying it first though, ha. I've attached four screenshots below - The first two show how it looks on Firefox (displaying correctly), and the last two show how it looks on my Roku. As you can see, the main UI just displays completely blank for Japanese characters, whereas the subtitles during video playback display as boxes. Given what you said in this thread, it seems likely that this issue will not ever be fixed, as it is due to a Roku limitation. I get that the vast majority of your userbase speaks English primarily, and that a small team of developers can't be expected to accommodate for every individual usecase. That being said, getting Japanese subtitles working was the whole reason I looked into self-hosing a media server to begin with (none of the major streaming sites offer Japanese subtitles), so I feel just a tad defeated. Would you happen to know if any of the other major streaming devices have issues displaying Japanese subtitles (such as Google TV, Fire TV, etc)? I may end up just ordering whatever the cheapest Google TV device I can find is as a workaround.
pwhodges 1855 Posted June 20, 2024 Posted June 20, 2024 If you force transcoding the subtitles can be burnt in at the server, which gets over any Roku limitation. A direct flag to force subtitle burn-in is not a standard control, but is available in the Diagnostics plugin (which means it needs setting again after a server restart). Paul
ebr 15663 Posted June 20, 2024 Posted June 20, 2024 Hi. I believe the Roku is the only box that has this limitation. Any Android flavor should be fine.
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