ASS subtitles not rendering in the Android TV app

[evil_crab 23]

Hi! 

I'm having issues with the LostYears release of Overlord. Episode plays fine in the Emby Theater app on Windows or in Kodi on Android TV, but in the Emby Android TV app subtitles are missing. Here's an episode in question https://animetosho.org/view/lostyears-overlord-s04e08-web-1080p-hi10p-aac-dual-audio.n1575690. If you need some logs please tell me.

[Luke 42078]

Hi.  Can you try sideloading our standard android app on the same device and see how that compares?

https://emby.media/emby-for-android.html

Thanks.

 

[evil_crab 23]

Sideloaded standard app has the same issue

[ebr 16178]

Can you please play that item for a few seconds and then follow the instructions to send a log from the app?

 

[evil_crab 23]

Done. I played a bit of the episode from the user Evil_Crab and sent logs from the Android TV app a couple of minutes ago.

Edited November 21, 2022 by evil_crab

[ebr 16178]

Are these internal or external subs?  Something is out of spec or at least unexpected about them:

11-17 01:44:56.465 14396 11906 E AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: ExoPlayer:LibassDecoder
11-17 01:44:56.465 14396 11906 E AndroidRuntime: Process: tv.emby.embyatv, PID: 14396
11-17 01:44:56.465 14396 11906 E AndroidRuntime: java.lang.NullPointerException
11-17 01:44:56.465 14396 11906 E AndroidRuntime: 	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.util.Assertions.checkNotNull(Assertions.java:154)
11-17 01:44:56.465 14396 11906 E AndroidRuntime: 	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.BaseRenderer.readSource(BaseRenderer.java:406)
11-17 01:44:56.465 14396 11906 E AndroidRuntime: 	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ext.libass.LibassRenderer.decodeInternal(LibassRenderer.java:150)
11-17 01:44:56.465 14396 11906 E AndroidRuntime: 	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ext.libass.LibassRenderer.decode(LibassRenderer.java:135)
11-17 01:44:56.465 14396 11906 E AndroidRuntime: 	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ext.libass.LibassRenderer.run(LibassRenderer.java:186)
11-17 01:44:56.465 14396 11906 E AndroidRuntime: 	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ext.libass.LibassRenderer.access$000(LibassRenderer.java:27)
11-17 01:44:56.465 14396 11906 E AndroidRuntime: 	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ext.libass.LibassRenderer$1.run(LibassRenderer.java:119)

 

[evil_crab 23]

Those are internal subs. I'm not sure if they are according to spec, but they play fine in Kodi on Nvidia Shield and Emby Theater on Windows

Edited November 21, 2022 by evil_crab

[evil_crab 23]

These subs are also available separately, so I'm attaching them just in case

[LostYears] Overlord - S04E08 (WEB 1080p Hi10P AAC) [C034E75C]_track5_eng.ass.xz

[ebr 16178]

1 hour ago, evil_crab said:

These subs are also available separately

If you add them as external, do they work properly?

[evil_crab 23]

When added as external they seem to work, but it seems that they are using default font in that case and are quite laggy in the moments with heavy styling (e.g. lyrics during the opening).

Edited November 21, 2022 by evil_crab

[evil_crab 23]

I also tested mpv on the Android TV and it displays subtitles correctly

Edited November 21, 2022 by evil_crab