2024-03-11, 06:45 AM
(This post was last modified: 2024-03-11, 07:04 AM by mnejing. Edited 3 times in total.)
(2024-01-31, 01:41 AM)TheDreadPirate Wrote: Most streaming dongles/boxes don't support ASS subs.
This is a bad answer. Straight up. Whether or not there is some kind of widespread adoption is not really a good excuse. I mean, what's the answer given to anime fans whose content primarily has ASS subs? Do you encourage everyone to extract their subs, convert them (which is fine for SSA/ASS because it's a text-based subtitle), and move them back? Or worse, dive in the cesspit that is OpenSubtitles?
The idea that I'd have to extract subtitles and convert them, and ideally re-embed them for cleanliness across literally thousands of files is, I'm sure you'd agree, completely unappealing.
Instead we get the same old answer that's been passed around for years. Either they ignore the fact that Exoplayer can handle ASS subs almost entirely without issue on Android TV (and, by extension, Android), or it's under some guise of it's too hard. SSA/ASS subs are not nearly as under-supported as people seem to believe.
I mean, my choice right now is I either burn my subs in and transcode not only my subtitles, but my audio too (because apparently Jellyfin can't recognize my AVR that clearly natively supports DD5.1, so it transcodes DD5.1 tracks to AAC, because that makes sense). Or, I get no subs and either have to blast the volume and wake my wife and neighbors, or I get to watch in mostly silence because, as it turns out, I'M HARD OF HEARING AND NEED SUBTITLES.
Your response made me feel kind of gross; it reeks of complacency and ignorance.
