[poopyurinal]

I have set up my XBMC PVR (using NextPVR as the backend, though I think this is an issue on the XBMC end) such that after a recording completes, I use CCExtractor to create an .srt file of North American Closed Captions. This works fine, but each time I watch a recording, I have to manually navigate to the folder and select the .srt file for that show. However, I saw this message in a post about Gotham beta versions: "Subtitles for videos over http should now support the same subtitle functions supported by local media (Note: Certain subtitle issues will only be fixed when non-default skins provide updates. Other fixes are in the works.)". Since Live TV shows are delivered from the backend to XBMC via a url, I took this to mean that XBMC would now "find" this .srt file automatically, but it doesn't and I still have to navigate manually. I have tried this with the Confluence and Transparency skins with no luck in either, so it seems it's not a skin issue. Is this a bug? Or an I misinterpreting the quote above? Or is this a problem with the NextPVR addon or within XBMC?

[poopyurinal]

I hate to bump my own post, but can someone clarify what "Subtitles for videos over http should now support the same subtitle functions supported by local media (Note: Certain subtitle issues will only be fixed when non-default skins provide updates. Other fixes are in the works.)" means? This might provide some insight in to what I want to do with my PVR recordings. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[nickr]

I don't think it is anything to do with PVR functionality. Surely you are better to leave the subtitles in the stream and watch them in the usual way? (Although I know some TV subtitle formats don't work with XBMC, maybe you are in that category.)

I think the quote refers to "files streamed over http", not "pvr recordings streamed over http". Bearing in mind too that not every PVR backend streams over http.

Oh and by definition files that have already recorded and been processed are not "live tv" they are "recordings".

IMHO it is unfortunate that XBMC's PVR functionality is described as "Live TV" when a PVR is so much more than what is being broadcast "live".

[poopyurinal]

Until XBMC (well, ffmpeg) supports north american closed captions, I am stuck with extracting the captions. I was really hoping Gotham with NextPVR would "find" these caption files automatically!

[nickr]

It may work if you access the files via videos rather than via pvr?

[poopyurinal]

It does work that way, but then I lose all the information about which episode is which, descriptions, etc.

[negge]

I don't think the API allows for external subtitle files at the moment. You're better of muxing them into the recordings themselves.

[nickr]

Yeah that should work.

[poopyurinal]

Sorry for such a delayed response, but I am currently trying to set up a method of muxing my extracted .srt files into the original .ts recording file, but I need some help. To reiterate/expand on the conditions, I am using NextPVR with a Hauppauge 2250 which creates .ts files. I set up my postprocessing.bat file to automatically extract .srt files from recordings (which works great), and I am trying to remux them into a .ts file with the same file name using tsMuxeR. I am currently at a loss in trying to create a command in my postprocessing.bat file that would mux the newly created .srt file into a .ts file with the same file name as the original recording. If anyone has any insight, it would be greatly appreciated. I am not tied to tsMuxeR, so any other solutions would be viable as well. Thanks for all your help!

[nickr]

I think you have to EITHER rename the original file to some temporary name and then do the remux command with the output going to the original filename, OR remux to a temporary filename, then rename the temp file to the original filename (if that makes sense?).