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Subtitles don't work with WD TV Live media player
Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2013 12:01 pm
by Ken123
I haven't been able to get subtitles to work with Western Digital's WD TV Live media player for Blu-ray MKVs. Subtitles work with mkvtoolnix but I want to use MakeMKV.
Re: Subtitles don't work with WD TV Live media player
Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2013 8:36 pm
by Woodstock
Under your MakeMKV preferences, are you ripping iwth the "WDTV" profile?
WDTV requires that BD subtitles be compressed.
Re: Subtitles don't work with WD TV Live media player
Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2013 3:37 am
by Ken123
Thanks! I didn't know about the profile! Will try it out.
Edit: It worked. Thanks again.
Re: Subtitles don't work with WD TV Live media player
Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2013 10:42 am
by dougsmith911
Since getting my WD TV Live player, i have been using the WDTV profile and it works great. I have a number of MKV files from before that do not. Is there a way to re-process them without having to go back and re-rip each one?
Re: Subtitles don't work with WD TV Live media player
Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2013 1:50 pm
by Woodstock
Yes, you can use tools like MKVToolix to process the MKV files, compressing the PGS subtitles. you can go to bunkus.org and find the tool kit.
Re: Subtitles don't work with WD TV Live media player
Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2013 3:28 am
by kaike
In case you don't want to rerip your BRs you can just put your MKV in MKVToolNix, go to the subtitle entry and choose the Extra Options rider. Under 'Compression' choose 'zlib' and save the file somewhere else and PGS subtitles should work on the WDTV. You might not want to download the newest version of MKVToolNix, get Version 4.0. The newer versions are compressing the Header and in older WDTV firmwares there was no sound, I'm not sure if this is still the case in new firmwares. Because of the PGS subtitle thing and no bitstream support for DTS-HD Master I switched media players some time ago.
Re: Subtitles don't work with WD TV Live media player
Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2013 5:01 am
by Chetwood
5.8.0 is fine and compression headers have been fixed long ago.
Re: Subtitles don't work with WD TV Live media player
Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2013 8:35 am
by mike admin
dougsmith911 wrote:Since getting my WD TV Live player, i have been using the WDTV profile and it works great. I have a number of MKV files from before that do not. Is there a way to re-process them without having to go back and re-rip each one?
Yes, there is one
You can open MKV file with MakeMKV and save with WDTV profile.
Re: Subtitles don't work with WD TV Live media player
Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2013 1:15 pm
by Romansh
kaike wrote:You might not want to download the newest version of MKVToolNix, get Version 4.0. The newer versions are compressing the Header and in older WDTV firmwares there was no sound, I'm not sure if this is still the case in new firmwares.
Actually, in newer versions of Mkvtoolnix (6.0.0 and later), header removal compression is now
disabled by default anyway.
Re: Subtitles don't work with WD TV Live media player
Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2013 4:56 am
by Chetwood
Yes, but 6.x uses new settings that might not sit well with hardware players which is why I recommended 5.8.0.
Re: Subtitles don't work with WD TV Live media player
Posted: Fri Apr 12, 2013 3:45 pm
by dougsmith911
mike admin wrote:dougsmith911 wrote:Since getting my WD TV Live player, i have been using the WDTV profile and it works great. I have a number of MKV files from before that do not. Is there a way to re-process them without having to go back and re-rip each one?
Yes, there is one
You can open MKV file with MakeMKV and save with WDTV profile.
Mike:
YAY! That's the answer I was hoping for!!! Thanks!
Doug