Kosta 8 Posted June 21, 2015 Posted June 21, 2015 Hello, Been using Emby for couple of days, and seem to stumble over one thing. My subtitles are not loading, even if they are beside the MKV-file. So, the setup is following: I connect to my home-network via VPN on a laptop, and I have normal access to everything, including my network-drives and local network. Emby is installed on my home-computer and I can play the files back. In the Emby via webbrowser, I see that I can select the PGS-subs that are encoded in the file. In the list there are also .srt subtitles that were automatically downloaded by the Emby. However when playing in the Kodi, those Subs are not loaded. Not SRT nor PGS. What am I missing? How do I get the Emby in the Kodi to load the subtitles that come along the file, or those embedded ones? Many thanks for help!
Angelblue05 4132 Posted June 21, 2015 Posted June 21, 2015 Subtitles do not load via transcoding. This is on our things to do still. I tried something a bit ago, but it needs a lot more work. The only way to transcode and have subtitles display is to set it before starting the stream (it can't be modified half-way through).... If I may ask, why are you transcoding instead of direct streaming (you can enable subtitles via direct streaming)?
Kosta 8 Posted June 21, 2015 Author Posted June 21, 2015 (edited) I have to transcode since I'm about 600km away from my home-network on a half-insecure-network (that's why IPsec Certificate-based VPN) and on a 4mbit-Internet-connection where I can stable-use 2mbit. I need transcoding otherwise no chance of playing back highres MKV files. I figured the reason was transcoding, since it gets the file over HTTP and not folder. Since you mention direct streaming, can I transcode that way? Edited June 21, 2015 by Kosta
Angelblue05 4132 Posted June 21, 2015 Posted June 21, 2015 No. You just need to leave the video quality at default value or highest possible, in add-on settings. You can try and see which is better.
Kosta 8 Posted June 21, 2015 Author Posted June 21, 2015 (edited) But if I leave it on high, the video starts to stutter and buffer, since the connection is not limited. I am now trying the settings in the server-settings, streaming and transcoding, how do these relate to the EMBY setting in the Kodi? If I understand it correctly, I have to set Play over HTTP instead over SMB in EMBY/KODI and set my connection to 2mbit to get a smooth playback here. Edited June 21, 2015 by Kosta
Angelblue05 4132 Posted June 21, 2015 Posted June 21, 2015 Ok then, that's fine too I was just telling you to try it out and see what which was better. Anyway, there's no way to get subtitles enabled right now. It will get done eventually.
Kosta 8 Posted June 21, 2015 Author Posted June 21, 2015 (edited) So the only way currently is to freshly download the subtitles from Opentitles.org each time I playback the episode? It only works if I set the Kodi to save to a shared drive or local drive. It saves into some kind of a master-file... What would really be great if the transcoding could be done over Samba, without HTTP, because as far as I understand it, it would then be able to read from the folder directly, like Kodi (in a local network) does. Btw. I am trying to install the 1.0.1 beta version, and I am not getting any files in Kodi to install. Was that version removed? Asking since it's on the Github. Edited June 21, 2015 by Kosta
Angelblue05 4132 Posted June 21, 2015 Posted June 21, 2015 You can try to leave it without the Play from HTTP enabled. It will then use Samba protocol. We are having a bit of difficulties with our host, the file just refuses to update. It's there but it's not updating. Really out of our control, but we will make an announcement when it's finally available.
Kosta 8 Posted June 21, 2015 Author Posted June 21, 2015 OK let's assume I would use SMB (HTTP not checked in EMBY/KODI), and then set the "Remote client bitrate limit (Mbps):" to 2, KODI should not be able to pull more than 2mbit over the link and should transcode automatically if set to Auto, right? However, does this work in the case if I log in as a single-admin-user and over the VPN? - which means that EMBY doesn't differentiate me as if being remote or on the local network. In another words: does this matter?
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