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I am running the MYTHTV PVR plug in against MythTV 27.4,
I can watch recordings, but if I try to enable captions, they stop playback in about 5 seconds.
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Could you transfer me a sample of mpeg file having the issue ? Using dropbox or other service ... Thanks
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Perhaps just make a 5 minute recording?
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I am using the button that downloads captions in the MYTHTV PVR add-on.
I'm not sure how it looks up captions, does title need to match, and is length important?
For what it's worth, this happens on recordings made on ATSC HDHOMERUN and from a HDPVR.
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Recordings made by HDPVR have no captions. I thought I could use Kodi to retrieve external captions. The function works in videos in KODI, but not the MYTHTV add--on. I will look at using mythexport to put the recordings in my video directory.
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Yeah I am not sure this works in pvr. Mostly because the files are not in the library and the file names (in mythtv) are something 1300_201507211900.mpg - which bears no relationship to the name of the show.
Also most of the download services match, for example, a filename including an encoding group like aXXo or something.
Also theres the fact that a recording usually has a bit of pre-roll and post-roll as well as commercials. Downloaded subtitle files don't usually account for these timing differences. A typical subtitle file has a time range (from the start of the file) and the words to be displayed.
Are you sure the HDPVR won't record subtitles?
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