Blatherscribe 5 Posted December 24, 2020 Posted December 24, 2020 Hello, Sorry to bother you again, but I'm scratching my head over this one. Emby has decided it does not like *some* of the subtitles in files made from my old DVDs. I've kept transcoding enabled, since you folks suggested that would prevent problems, and it has never been activated until tonight. I fired up Babylon 5, taken from my DVDs, and discovered that Emby is transcoding it specifically for subtitles (transcoding on = subtitles, transcoding off = no subtitles). They're in DVDSUB, exactly the same as many other files that do *not* transcode. Is it just that sometimes DVDSUB does this? Or is there something I can prod to make it stop? I'm inclined to think it's the DVD's fault, I'm just curious and mildly hopeful that there's a solution. Transcoding always knocks the image quality down a peg, and when it's as bad as this to begin with, it's noticeable. Thanks, and have a great holiday!
Happy2Play 9783 Posted December 24, 2020 Posted December 24, 2020 Are you sure the suptitles are exactly the same in ones that transcode and ones that don't? Can you show the Media Info shown in Emby for both. But am guessing they are different types as graphical subtitles require transcoding on most clients.
Blatherscribe 5 Posted December 24, 2020 Author Posted December 24, 2020 It just says "English (DVDSUB)," unless there's something else I should be looking for. Funny thing, the Babylon 5 TV movies, purchased at the same long-ago time, have the same DVDSUB format and play without transcoding.
ebr 16187 Posted December 24, 2020 Posted December 24, 2020 Hi. Can we please look at a specific example? It is possible that the item needs to be remuxed for some other reason and then the subtitles cause transcoding due to that.
Blatherscribe 5 Posted January 2, 2021 Author Posted January 2, 2021 Sorry I missed this! Here's a server log and a transcode log from tonight. Thanks for being willing to look into this. embyserver.txt ffmpeg-transcode-d23a4cfa-400a-40cc-8e77-76c26d569b37_1.txt
ebr 16187 Posted January 2, 2021 Posted January 2, 2021 Okay that app does not currently support DVDSub (but should hopefully in the future). So on the items you said were not transcoding the subs must have been different or were not selected (or a different app).
Blatherscribe 5 Posted January 2, 2021 Author Posted January 2, 2021 Thanks... but now I'm wondering where the heck the other subtitles came from!
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