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unguamorray
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external subtitles

Post by unguamorray »

External subtitles works nice when using transcoding, BUT:
transcoding ruins the quality of the video ... !!!
when transcoding is skipped - NO EXTERNAL SUBS can be accessed ???
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mik_s
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Re: external subtitles

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It depends on the renderer but some will find the external subtitle file if it is named the same as the video (except the extension) and will use that instead.

There is a setting in the conf that controls this but is on by default.

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# Whether to offer external subtitles to renderer as an additional stream.
# Supported subtitles are defined in SupportedExternalSubtitlesFormats.
# Default: true
OfferSubtitlesAsSource =
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