No. The issue is still open. I’ll bump the issue with the devs.
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Not seen anything in the beta notes of late. I am hoping all this becomes a non-issue once Android TV gets the MPV player; I’m assuming it will, that is.
No news. The devs are still looking but nothing is standing out as to the cause. They can reproduce and see the problem so they at least have something to test if they figure out the problem.
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There’s that at least. Thanks for the update.
FYI, as far as I can tell this seems to be fixed in 7.11. I’ve been using Kodi for a while and only test every couple months or so, so I couldn’t tell you which version fixed it but hopefully vobsubs won’t break again.
Vobsubs in general should work, but there are certain ones, like what is being discussed in this thread where they get rendered wrong.
At the risk of being pedantic, but for me vobsubs miss-rendering 100% of the time is not what I would considering working “in general”. I don’t know enough other people to say that it was working for others, but I know the people in these issue threads well enough for The Internet to know that it wasn’t fully working for 100% us. I’m hopeful that going forward the developers will appreciate the issue enough to do regression testing on it and prevent it from happening again in the future.
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And I appreciate the work that has gone into fixing all VOBSUB bugs; after this misrendering issue is addressed, I think all VOBSUB issues have been addressed.
@anon18523487 said that developers have reproduced the issue but just don’t know how to fix it yet. I’m assuming if they got this far, it shouldn’t take another two years to sort matters.
I did also give them the link to the sample file you gave me, although @anon18523487 did say that they have only used my samples currently. I don’t think they need more samples but you could ask @anon18523487 if he’d like yours to look at. I have the Manga/Animation one.
I noticed that one of my devices is running 7.11 and the other is 7.10 (I use a Sony X900F Android TV and a Amazon Fire TV Gen 3), both pulled from from their app stores. According to the main release page 7.10 is stable…so I’m not sure why 7.11 has been pushed out or what it fixes. In any case, both devices are now showing proper vobsubs from my testing where they were not before, so whatever they fixed was at least from 7.10.
Ah, @anon18523487 said that misrendering was not fixed, so I cannot think on how misrendering was fixed for you; the release notes didn’t say anything. Maybe @MovieFan.Plexcan clarify matters. He did say that ‘certain’ VOBSUBS misrendered.
Yeah, it looks like I spoke too soon. It is not fixed at all. I am currently watching some old Cowboy Bebop DVDs of mine and those worked without issue, but when I went back to watch my Ranma 1/2 DVDs that were miss-rendering back last year I saw that they are still having the same issue. Back to Kodi I guess.
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Not all vobsubs are the same, just like not all h264 is the same. There are different options that can be used when encoding them. We’ve addressed many of these so the were many cases where they didn’t even appear because the app wasn’t expecting that specific encoding. The only issue left that i am aware is this specific one in the sample we got. The devs haven’t identified what is causing the misrendering in this file. The Ranma files you have might have the same mysterious encoding issue. The devs are experimenting with a few things so hopefully they can luckily find the fix since they can’t find the cause.
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Appreciate all the work put into solving this issue.
Has there been any update on this? I’ve been using Kodi with the Plex addon but it would be nice be able to go back to using the Plex client.
I’m not sure. There were a bunch of things done regarding vobsubs. Do you have a specific file that causes this issue? If you can check then provide a sample I can follow up with the devs.
Hi there, a lot of issue were solved. Subtitles no longer disappear for me. All this is likely to be moot when Android TV gets MPV; I think HD audio is holding it all up (no idea really).
The main issue remaining for me is the misrendered vobsubs. Since 7.13 they’ve been unusable for one reason or another. I think it sucks that I went Android for Plex because the client was superior, then they went and broke vobsubs so now the Apple TV appears to be the superior hardware if you don’t want to switch to Kodi.
When mpv on Android has audio passthrough, that’ll change.
To be clear, I didn’t say that mpv was coming to Android. I said that was the only other potential platform where mpv may work, but that there were drawbacks compared to our current player.
