The WD TV Live plays my mkv DVD rips without a problem, langauges, subtitles and all. When I play my mkv blu ray rips however, the TV Live will not display the subtitles. I also validated that the subtitels are there through playback on my desktop. Any suggestions? If not please fix this issue. Thanks.
The WDTV does play bluray subs (PGS) but it does ignore the default/forced flag so you need to manually turn them on if your WDTV defaults to subtitle off. It will however not play external subs (no matter what kind) when you playback files via DLNA. In that case connect to network shares (which uses SMB) instead.
What is an external sub? Also, what is DLNA?
I ripped my movies using ByteCopy into mkv files. The files are being hosted from my Linux (Debian) NFS server.
External subs are separate files that contain only subtitles.
Post the FULL text output of MediaInfo from one of your Bytecopy’d MKV files that contain subtitles that don’t work.
root@media-server:/home/garrett/Videos/Movies# mediainfo Amélie-BD.mkv
General
Unique ID : 294729320464032879261281008643815838596 (0xDDBACD6895384FD696DCA43319C91384)
Complete name : Amélie-BD.mkv
Format : Matroska
Format version : Version 2
File size : 33.0 GiB
Duration : 2h 2mn
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 38.7 Mbps
Encoded date : UTC 2014-02-16 13:29:27
Writing application : libmatroska built on Aug 28 2013 17:28:01
Writing library : libebml v1.2.0 + libmatroska v1.1.0
Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L4.1
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 4 frames
Format settings, GOP : M=3, N=12
Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 35.8 Mbps
Maximum bit rate : 37.0 Mbps
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Original frame rate : 23.976 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Language : English
Default : Yes
Forced : No
Audio #1
ID : 2
Format : DTS
Format/Info : Digital Theater Systems
Format profile : MA / Core
Codec ID : A_DTS
Duration : 2h 2mn
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 1 891 Kbps / 1 510 Kbps
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 24 bits
Compression mode : Lossless / Lossy
Delay relative to video : 1mn 5s
Language : French
Default : Yes
Forced : No
Audio #2
ID : 3
Format : AC-3
Format/Info : Audio Coding 3
Format profile : Dolby Digital
Mode extension : CM (complete main)
Format settings, Endianness : Big
Codec ID : A_AC3
Duration : 2h 2mn
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 224 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel positions : Front: L R
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Compression mode : Lossy
Delay relative to video : 1mn 5s
Stream size : 196 MiB (1%)
Language : English
Default : Yes
Forced : No
Text #1
ID : 4
Format : PGS
Codec ID : S_HDMV/PGS
Codec ID/Info : The same subtitle format used on BDs/HD-DVDs
Language : English
Default : Yes
Forced : No
Text #2
ID : 5
Format : PGS
Codec ID : S_HDMV/PGS
Codec ID/Info : The same subtitle format used on BDs/HD-DVDs
Language : English
Default : Yes
Forced : No
Text #3
ID : 6
Format : PGS
Codec ID : S_HDMV/PGS
Codec ID/Info : The same subtitle format used on BDs/HD-DVDs
Language : Spanish
Default : Yes
Forced : No
Menu
00:00:00.000 : en:Chapter1
00:09:12.885 : en:Chapter2
00:14:22.653 : en:Chapter3
00:21:38.547 : en:Chapter4
00:30:48.513 : en:Chapter5
00:39:06.969 : en:Chapter6
00:47:42.901 : en:Chapter7
00:57:27.944 : en:Chapter8
01:05:12.116 : en:Chapter9
01:11:30.369 : en:Chapter10
01:17:28.393 : en:Chapter11
01:25:36.798 : en:Chapter12
01:32:42.974 : en:Chapter13
01:39:07.650 : en:Chapter14
01:45:19.354 : en:Chapter15
01:51:47.951 : en:Chapter16
So you’re saying that when you press the SUBTITLE button on the remote (or select a subtitle track via the UI) – the on screen display indicates — what? No subtitles present?
Or does it indicate you’ve enabled subtitles but nothing ever displays?
When I click the Subtitles button on the remote in the top left corner of the screen it says Subtitels 1 : English, Subtitles 2 : English, Subtitles 3 : Castelian, but subtitles never actually appear. This problem is only with blu ray rip, the DVD rip is working just fine. Both version DVD & Blue-Ray were ripped with ByteCopy.
Hmm. I thought it was fixed, but I wonder if it’s because the subtitles aren’t zlib compressed.
Open the file with MKVmergeGUI and ensure the subtitles are compressed with ZLIB.
Apparently not, otherwise it would read
ID : 6
Format : PGS
Muxing mode : zlib
Codec ID : S_HDMV/PGS
Codec ID/Info : Picture based subtitle format used on BDs/HD-DVDs
Language : German
Default : Yes
Forced : No
Which means, he has to remux the file with MKVToolnix which automatically compresses the subs. It’s odd though, cause I was under the impression this had been fixed some time ago, too.
