Problems with using external players

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Playing a video with an external player will force transcoding if the video contains subtitles in SRT format, which will make it impossible to use fast forward when playing the video.

[Luke 42077]

 

Hi there, let's look at an example. Please attach the information requested in how to report a media playback issue. Thanks!

 

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ffmpeg-transcode-745139ae-e67f-4404-859b-65eb0dcb2314_1.txt embyserver.txt

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15 minutes ago, Luke said:

 

Hi there, let's look at an example. Please attach the information requested in how to report a media playback issue. Thanks!

 

I uploaded it

[Luke 42077]

OK the problem is that if we don't burn them in then you won't get any subtitles at all because there's no way to pass the subtitle url to the player. So it's kind of pick your poison, which problem do you want. I guess we'll just go ahead and do that though.

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2 hours ago, Luke said:

OK the problem is that if we don't burn them in then you won't get any subtitles at all because there's no way to pass the subtitle url to the player. So it's kind of pick your poison, which problem do you want. I guess we'll just go ahead and do that though.

Why can't I transcode using ass subtitles?

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2 hours ago, Luke said:

OK the problem is that if we don't burn them in then you won't get any subtitles at all because there's no way to pass the subtitle url to the player. So it's kind of pick your poison, which problem do you want. I guess we'll just go ahead and do that though.

Ass subtitles can be used without transcoding.

[Luke 42077]

9 hours ago, 17732 said:

Ass subtitles can be used without transcoding.

Yes but there’s no way to pass the subtitle URL to the external player, so they’ll need to be embedded.