Videos with VobSub Subtitle are getting transcoded

[Richard Branches 330]

Although I commented about this issue in other posts regarding this subtitle format, I haven't made a proper post for Android TV on the Xiaomi Mi Box until now:

 

Videos with VobSub subtitle are getting transcoded, it seems the device doesn't support it or Emby app lacks support for it.

 

I sent the log at 12:50 pm on 26/03/18, there is also a log for an MPEG-2 video, a log for an h.264 video and the server log.

ffmpeg-transcode-7cc40a66-2bf8-4b58-b48c-bcc8b8a59d17.txt

ffmpeg-transcode-5999ccae-1aa5-4ac4-bf2d-bd558df07e60.txt

server-63657663919.txt

[Richard Branches 330]

Today, april 19 2018 I received an update to the Android TV beta version 1.5.73g and videos with VobSub subtitles are not getting transcoded anymore! ¡thank you Emby developers!

Edited April 19, 2018 by delacosta78

[Luke 42078]

Thanks for the feedback.

[Richard Branches 330]

What happened? I received an update to version 1.5.74g and now everything is getting transcoded

[ebr 16178]

What happened? I received an update to version 1.5.74g and now everything is getting transcoded

 

Hi.  These are beta releases so things are constantly in flux.

 

Thanks.

[Richard Branches 330]

Hi.  These are beta releases so things are constantly in flux.

 

Thanks.

 

I know they are betas but that's not what I asked, what I wanted to know is why the videos with vobsub subtitles didn't get transcoded in the previous beta version but they are again getting transcoded with this new update?

[Richard Branches 330]

I received the update to 1.5.75g and everything is apparently back to normal...

[Richard Branches 330]

Today I met Emby's open source fork "Jellyfin" and I was amazed that it has VobSub subtitle support while Emby for Android TV still lacks it, WHY?

[ebr 16178]

Today I met Emby's open source fork "Jellyfin" and I was amazed that it has VobSub subtitle support while Emby for Android TV still lacks it, WHY?

 

They are a very old version of this app.  So old that it still contains a copy of VLC as a player option.  My guess is you were using that - but what else did you give up?

 

And we DO support vobsub.  It just has to be transcoded.

[Richard Branches 330]

They are a very old version of this app.  So old that it still contains a copy of VLC as a player option.  My guess is you were using that - but what else did you give up?

 

And we DO support vobsub.  It just has to be transcoded.

 

Why it doesn't support direct playback?

[Richard Branches 330]

Beta 1.8.74 brings VobSub support and I was finally able to direct-play videos with that subtitle, thaaaaaaaaaaank youuuuuuuuuuu!: