BDP5200 subtitles support with dnla (using mediatomb)?

[whh]

I bought the BDP5200 yesterday and currently I am enjoying its possibilities. I've setup mediatomb on my computer. The player is able to connect to my computer and plays most files nicely. By performing some searching on the internet I was able to get pause/fwd/rwd and search to time working as well.

There is just one thing which I currently don't get working: subtitles over dlna. I have some movies with .srt subtitles which I have renamed to match the name of the video file. However the player does not see any subtitles (the only option in the subtitle menu is `off'). Is using subtitle files over dlna even possible? Do I need a special setting for mediatomb to get it working?

[kwinnie]

i read somewhere yesterday that mkv+srt can be played; just not avi+srt.
but since only Twonky media is able to stream that mkv format... i m not sure if you can try...

so you are using avi+srt?

[whh]

I tried both: mkv+srt and avi+srt. Both did not work.

From what I know, mediatomb can handle `blind' requests for srt files (asking the server for a srt file even if the file is not seen by the client), but I don't know if Philips devices are performing such a blind request. Maybe there is a way to expose the srt files in such a way they are visible to the client, but I haven't found it yet.

If all else fails I might have a look at Twonky media.

[Snyrkill]

Hi.

I have mediatomb running on a Linux box and the ffwd/rew work for me, but not pause. I've been unable to find any useful hints on how to make the pause work. Can you send me some URL which sheds a light on this?

In my case, subtitles in MKV files work, but not external .srt files. I read somewhere that they must be named exactly the same as the movie file expect for the extension.

Best regards,
-S

I bought the BDP5200 yesterday and currently I am enjoying its possibilities. I've setup mediatomb on my computer. The player is able to connect to my computer and plays most files nicely. By performing some searching on the internet I was able to get pause/fwd/rwd and search to time working as well.

There is just one thing which I currently don't get working: subtitles over dlna. I have some movies with .srt subtitles which I have renamed to match the name of the video file. However the player does not see any subtitles (the only option in the subtitle menu is `off'). Is using subtitle files over dlna even possible? Do I need a special setting for mediatomb to get it working?

[whh]

I've added the following lines to the /etc/mediatomb/config.xml:

<custom-http-headers>
      <add header="transferMode.dlna.org: Streaming"/>
      <add header="contentFeatures.dlna.org: DLNA.ORG_OP=01;DLNA.ORG_CI=0;DLNA.ORG_FLAGS=01500000000000000000000000000000"/>
</custom-http-headers>

And changed (initial value was "no"):

<protocolInfo extend="yes"/>

[Snyrkill]

Thanks!
I had already done the custom-http-headers but the protocolInfo did the trick!

Regs,
-S

[whh]

Thanks!
I had already done the custom-http-headers but the protocolInfo did the trick!

Regs,
-S

Glad that I could be of help. About the subtitles, streaming MKV that includes a subtitle works for you? What kind of subtitle is embedded in the MKV? Is it srt embedded in MKV? Or another subtitle format? I have an MKV with a srt subtitle embedded, but it does not seem to work for me.

Do you use any other settings in the mediatomb config file that deviate from the standard settings?

[Snyrkill]

Subtitles included in the MKV work fine for me. I tried some stuff yesterday using a tool called mkvmerge GUI.

First I took a 4.4GB MKV file without subtitles and inserted an .idx subtitle file. It took about a minute to remux the file and it played perfectly on the 5200.

Then I took an .avi (no subtitles) file and .srt file and created one MKV file. The subtitles worked perfectly.

The tool (mkvmerge) seems to support only .srt and .idx subtitle files.

I only made the same changes to the config.xml as you suggested, but I'm running Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS. I can send you the file if you want.

Best regs,
-S