marc.aronson Wrote:is there anything special I need to do to get it to decode the subitltes that are embedded in "over the air" transmissions? steelman1991 Wrote:Marc - unless I'm totally off track here, embedded subs are exactly that embedded directly into the video. Therefore nothing is required to be carried out to activiate those subtitles, they will be played as part of the video. If, however you are referring to seperate subtitle files included in an mkv container then the only thing you need to do is ensure that subtitles are enabled from the XBMC OSD accessible when playing a video.
I am horribly late in replying to this -- overload at work but back to my XBMC install now. I think I have not been clear and I probably should not be calling them subtitles. They are typically referred to as "Closed Captions", or "CC" for short. They are embedded in the transmission and are invisible until you turn on Closed Caption decoding. Based on what I have
read they are transmitted on scan line 21 of the transmission. When using an analog connection between the video source and the TV, the TV's Closed Caption decoder will take care of this, but when connected via HDMI, the TV never sees line 21, so I need XBMC to take care of the decoding. The default XBMC player has this capability, but the default player doesn't support hardware acceleration, which is why I am using DSplayer.
So the correct question is this: How do I get DSplayer to decode & display the Closed Caption data. As a reminder, I am using the PowerDVD8 video and audio codec's, per oldpainless's trick...
Thanks again for all the great work you guys are doing and any help you can provide!
Marc