subtitles not working

[jellelle 3]

embyserver.txtffmpeg-transcode-f4a701b5-2210-4ef0-9543-54e46d49fab6_1.txtffmpeg-remux-9d661f56-68ef-4d85-863b-ca8542d1df1e_1.txt

Snippet of the embyserver log and ffmpeg logs, when playing s01e02 on Android phone (subtitles are fine) and s01e03 on Emby for Windows (subtitles don't show up).

[jellelle 3]

I see there is a difference between transcode (working subtitles) and remux (not showing subtitles). This used to work a couple of days ago.

Edited 10 hours ago by jellelle

[Luke 42200]

@jellelle

[jellelle 3]

My server can't transcode on the fly, which is why I disabled “Allow video transcoding to a compatible format, if necessary, during media playback.” Or am I misinterpreting that setting?

As a test, I have toggled 'Allow video transcoding to a compatible format, if necessary, during media playback', but it still is 'Reducing bitrate due to quality setting' without showing the subtitles.

 

What I find strange is that I didn’t have any issues before with remux not showing subtitles until yesterday.

Edited 1 hour ago by jellelle

[jellelle 3]

Looking for a workaround.
If the user sets the Internet Quality in the player to 4K - 200 Mbps, the stream is Direct Playing. Which is a small hassle to explain to my 80-year old parents how to fix the issue.

 

I see there is an option on server side, but this still forces the stream to remux. How come?

 

[Luke 42200]

24 minutes ago, jellelle said:

My server can't transcode on the fly, which is why I disabled “Allow video transcoding to a compatible format, if necessary, during media playback.” Or am I misinterpreting that setting?

That's fine, but just understand that when you do that, it may cause things to not work.

[Luke 42200]

7 minutes ago, jellelle said:

Looking for a workaround.
If the user sets the Internet Quality in the player to 4K - 200 Mbps, the stream is Direct Playing. Which is a small hassle to explain to my 80-year old parents how to fix the issue.

 

I see there is an option on server side, but this still forces the stream to remux. How come?

 

Did you read the help text underneath the option? Does it apply to them? Did you explore the stats feature in the video player to learn why it wasn't direct playing?

[jellelle 3]

I think this broke for me with the recent update.

Can I revert to previous version in Docker Container to try this out?
Edit: Reverting did not fix it. Weird. Am I tripping Will look further.

Edited 45 minutes ago by jellelle

[jellelle 3]

Will troubleshoot

 

 

Edited 30 minutes ago by jellelle

[jellelle 3]

With these settings, the player transcode the stream and no subtitles are being shown and the quality is till reduced to 1 Mbps.

 

When I force the highest quality in the player, the subtitles do show:

ffmpeg-transcode-fafa9538-eb6d-4a42-83ec-71a99d6426f5_1.txt

Edited 5 minutes ago by jellelle