Why are Subtitle Filtering and Hardware Subtitle Overlay disabled?

[MrPancake 11]

Hi all,

I've been facing a persistent issue related to subtitles playback on my LG TV, related to two options in Diagnostic Options:

• Disable Hardware Subtitle Overlay
• Disable Subtitle Filtering

As soon as I untick the options and reboot the server, the playback works normally.

For reasons not clear to me, both options are enabled by default. This becomes particularly troublesome as I find myself needing to disable them (therefore, enabling the functions) after every server update to ensure subtitles display correctly on my LG TV. This has been an ongoing issue for quite some time.

Could anyone shed light on why these settings are on by default? More importantly, is there a way to keep them enabled permanently, so they persist through updates? It's quite a hassle to adjust these settings manually each time.

Thanks for your help!

[pwhodges 2102]

For some reason the extensive re-engineering of the subtitle system a couple of years ago has been left since then in a not-quite-complete state.  These options remain in the diagnostics setup (and hence not persistent) because they can still cause issues.

Paul

[MrPancake 11]

4 minutes ago, pwhodges said:

For some reason the extensive re-engineering of the subtitle system a couple of years ago has been left since then in a not-quite-complete state.  These options remain in the diagnostics setup (and hence not persistent) because they can still cause issues.

Paul

Thanks, I figured that might be the case. However, at my home, the opposite is true - not having it on gives issues.

Could we maybe push for the preferences in the diagnostic options to persist on updates? I understand if the dev team wouldn't want to change those options defaults for everybody, but would appreciate having a choice.

[MrPancake 11]

Could someone from the emby devs let me know? @Luke

Thank you

[Luke 43103]

5 hours ago, MrPancake said:

Could someone from the emby devs let me know? @Luke

Thank you

Hi, they are experimental development that is not yet completed, so enable at your own risk.

[MrPancake 11]

2 hours ago, Luke said:

Hi, they are experimental development that is not yet completed, so enable at your own risk.

Thank you. 

Would you considering letting the diagnostic options persist across server updates? 

 

[crusher11 1304]

On 3/18/2024 at 7:56 PM, pwhodges said:

For some reason the extensive re-engineering of the subtitle system a couple of years ago has been left since then in a not-quite-complete state.  These options remain in the diagnostics setup (and hence not persistent) because they can still cause issues.

Paul

I assume they'll get back to it after they've finished the IntroSkip implementation.

[SortSpion 3]

Any news on this?

I will second MrPancake's motion that having a way to persist diagnostic options would be nice. I too need the "Disable Hardware Subtitle Overlay" setting disabled for my system to perform for HD and 4K playback with PGSUB subtitles.

I understand that the feature might not be completely stable at the moment (I haven't encountered any issues though). And so understand the reluctance to add options to persist these options easily, so that someone might do so accidentally. But if we could get an option to set the options in an ini-file or similar, so that a determined admin could do so, that would be much appreciated.