Emulating LG Smart Share behavior
Posted: Sun May 07, 2023 1:14 am
Features of LG Smart Share I'd like to emulate with UMS:
- No transcoding of audio or video, if it plays it plays. If UMS transcodes the media I can't fast forward or rewind the video and I can't pause it. Or rather can't successfully unpause it.
- Make text subtitle files, SRT for eg, available to the TV when they're named the same as the video file. The TV sees it as a separate file since it's possible to turn the subtitles on or off in the TV video player. I don't care which language is the audio, I don't care in which language UMS thinks the subtitles are - if a subtitles file with the same filename is present make it available!
Is it possible to achieve this in UMS?
I'm obviously using a WebOS LG TV. I tried a lot of combinations of language settings, forcing subtitles, etc. I know about the chapter workaround for seeking over transcoded video, I'm not a fan.
I can't quite remember why I can't use the LG Smart Share, it's probably some stability issue, and in the end I would very much like to use UMS for all of its advanced features. But I need to have these baseline requirements sorted first! So before we get into the details, with this asking me to press I button I don't see, before I ask why are there both two and three letter country code standards used on the same settings page and if it matters which one I use and why UMS keeps thinking Serbian subtitles are in Czech I would just like to know if my goal is possible. Thank you!
- No transcoding of audio or video, if it plays it plays. If UMS transcodes the media I can't fast forward or rewind the video and I can't pause it. Or rather can't successfully unpause it.
- Make text subtitle files, SRT for eg, available to the TV when they're named the same as the video file. The TV sees it as a separate file since it's possible to turn the subtitles on or off in the TV video player. I don't care which language is the audio, I don't care in which language UMS thinks the subtitles are - if a subtitles file with the same filename is present make it available!
Is it possible to achieve this in UMS?
I'm obviously using a WebOS LG TV. I tried a lot of combinations of language settings, forcing subtitles, etc. I know about the chapter workaround for seeking over transcoded video, I'm not a fan.
I can't quite remember why I can't use the LG Smart Share, it's probably some stability issue, and in the end I would very much like to use UMS for all of its advanced features. But I need to have these baseline requirements sorted first! So before we get into the details, with this asking me to press I button I don't see, before I ask why are there both two and three letter country code standards used on the same settings page and if it matters which one I use and why UMS keeps thinking Serbian subtitles are in Czech I would just like to know if my goal is possible. Thank you!