Is there a way to get OMXPlayer to show the embedded subtitles in foo.mp4 without first extracting the subtitles with ffmpeg to foo.srt, and without hardcoding the subtitles into foo.mp4?
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MP4 only supports "mov_text" subtitles. Are you sure OMXPlayer can read that format? – llogan Apr 05 '21 at 16:53
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Yes, omxplayer --subtitles foo.srt foo.mp4 displays subtitles. – Eddy Sorngard Apr 05 '21 at 18:14
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That's SRT. I was asking about the alleged embedded subtitles in the MP4 itself. – llogan Apr 05 '21 at 18:39
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ffmpeg -i infile.mp4 \ -f srt -i subtitle.srt \ -c:a copy -c:v copy -c:s \ mov_text -metadata:s:s:0 \ language=nor \ -movflags +faststart \ outfile.mp4 – Eddy Sorngard Apr 05 '21 at 19:14
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VLC displays the subtitles,omxplayer outfile.mp4 does not. – Eddy Sorngard Apr 05 '21 at 19:16
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If you want to use omxplayer it appears you are stuck using SRT and will not be able to avoid the extra step of extracting. – llogan Apr 05 '21 at 19:22
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Could MKV solve the problem? – Eddy Sorngard Apr 05 '21 at 21:23
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The problem was solved by adding SRT subtitles to a MKV-container instead of MP4:
ffmpeg -i infile.mp4 \
-f srt -i subtitles.srt \
-c:v copy -c:a copy -c:s srt \
-metadata:s:s:0 language=nor \
outfile.mkv
Subtitles can than be displayed by starting OMXPlayer with -t 0
omxplayer -t 0 outfile.mkv
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