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2017-10-12, 01:15
Hi,
Is there a way or of not Will there be an option for watching subtitle that is image based?
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That's a thing I hear for the first time. How does that basically work, does it require a sh*tload of gifs/jpgs/pngs/tifs next to the video, and those are simply displayed over the video? Or are they somehow separately embedded already into the video file. Aren't text files a lot easier than images as subtitles, in terms of filesize?
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I'm pretty sure Kodi supports PGS and VOBSUB subtitles which are actually bitmaps, not text based. In my files, they're muxed into the MKV container with the video/audio tracks.
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True DVD subs are also image-based and displayed fine.
Do you have an example of image-based subs that do not work (or please explain if you mean something completely different)
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So this is with the Netflix addon, in which case it's either the addon itself that currently can't support the image subtitles, or that Netflix isn't using a format of image subtitles that we currently support in which case we would need to know what they use.