i’m new to raspberry and osmc so sry for the newbie question.
I’m trying to play a mkv file with embedded subtitles. Problem is, that the subtiles were not displayed although osmc is recognizing them (in subtitle menu “local subtitle available” and also in the audio menu the right subtitle).
So … do you have any idea what the problem could be? I really dont get it. Tried it with some mp4 files and it worked perfect.
Strange, I play MK4’s all the time and never have had a issue with a subtitles not displaying. I do use the plugins for Subscene and opensutitles.org to download the subtitles.
Subtitles you download are mainly .srt. Subtitles embedded in .mkv can be almost any format and it is the SSA/ASS format that the current alpha dont have builtin support for.
Hello… I’m also new to this… When I try to make that command (sudo apt-get install libass5) in my terminal to Openelec I get the following reply.
There is no working ‘sudo’.
On debian/ubuntu/all general purpose linux distributions ‘sudo’
allows a permitted user to execute a command as the superuser
or another user, as specified by the security policy
With OpenELEC you have root access by default, so you dont need ‘sudo’
VERY informate but also very confusing… I’m guessing you guys control your media station in some other way. Care to tell me how?
This seems to be the best thread for it so I’ll continue here.
Did the 3 apt-get commands but still no subtitles.
Added a few subtitles service providers so I guess I’ll manage but would still like to figure out why this doesn’t work.
Back to basics (mentioning irrelevant stuff as well just in case). Used CladDVD to rip a DVD (*), shows subtitles properly in VLC on my main computer. Sure have the subtitles in OSMC enabled visibly (tried fixed and bottom just in case) as I can see subtitles if I go and fetch one from podnapisi.
OSMC shows Local subtitle available.
Now what?
More info:
Had Raspberry installed on one of the original/early Pi’s since 2103 (Hardware says BCM2078 = Pi1?). Started to get video stutter recently on lots of files so finally got fed up and upgraded to OSMC. Way snappier (mostly), good job. Maybe time to donate again (although my quota for this year is full ).
*) File info shows (apparently this is for subtitles?). Haven’t had to dig around considering these issues for ages.
Text #1
ID : 189 (0xBD)-32 (0x20)
Format : RLE
Format/Info : Run-length encoding
Muxing mode : DVD-Video
Duration : 1h 24mn
Delay relative to video : 31s 231ms
I’m sorry for bumping such an old post. But for months, maybe years, I’ve had the problem that on some files the subtitles wouldn’t be enabled by default. These are the kinds of minor inconveniences that I can apparently live with until I no longer can. I recently started a series with many seasons were the subtitles wouldn’t automatically be enabled and I decide to try and solve this.
First I tried installing libass5, but that wasn’t possible. Then I decided to install libass-dev, which fixed the problem. My system was up to date, yet somehow this fixed/enabled something that wasn’t there by default. Wanted to share for future reference.
If so - this makes little sense. We already include Alpha Substation Support and installing the development package would just give you headers which are not needed for your system.
This wouldn’t make any difference at all.
Also keep in mind that the post you replied to is 7 years old.
In regards to the old post, what would you have prefered? A new post?
And yes, the subtitles could always be enabled manually, but wouldn’t be enabled by default. This issue only occured with subtitles that weren’t in the same directory as with the .srt files, but somehow part of the file that plays. That’s a weird sentence, but the srt subtitles would always be enabled automatically, the others ones only manually (but available in the subtitle menu directly without browsing). Until researching this problem I didn’t know there were more modern subtitles ways.
Maybe my fix doesn’t make any sense, but it is the only thing I did as a fix and it fixed it. So I’m just sharing.
I’ve been using OSMC for a few years now on an almost daily basis. I really like it. So thanks for all the good work. It is because of this, that I thought I would share my perceived fix, in order to help to improve OSMC. However, the tone of your replies is quite discouraging . Some subtitles weren’t working automatically for years, others were. It does now for subtitles that weren’t enabled automatically before, after installing this package. It may be unrelated, as I also installed a system update before installing the package. That might have done it. That would be quite a coincidence given the time it didn’t work. Nonetheless, possible, yes. I’ll leave it at that.
