Alternative Folder for Subtitles
Some users prefer to keep all subtitle files in a separate folder rather than alongside their video files.
Use the Options dialog (Subtitles / Advanced page) to specify the alternative subtitle folder:
- Click Tools / Options to display the Options dialog and go to the Subtitles / Advanced page.
- Click the Browse button next to “Additional folder containing external subtitle files” and choose the folder.
- Click OK to save your changes.
- Run Maintain Library to update your Mezzmo library.
Subtitle files stored in the alternative folder must follow the same file naming strategy to be “paired” with the video file name. For example:
D:\mymovies\myvideo.avi - Video file
C:\mysubtitles\myvideo.srt - SubRip subtitle file
C:\mysubtitles\myvideo.fr.sub - Subtitle file written in French language
Note: Make sure the alternative folder with subtitles is always available for reading, especially when the folder exists on a removable hard drive.
Device Profiles and Device Settings dialog
There are many 1000’s of different devices that support DLNA/UPnP streaming and most of these devices are supported by Mezzmo. Mezzmo can support a wide variety of devices since it includes device profiles for these devices and automatically assigns a device profile to detected devices on your home network. Device profiles tell Mezzmo what video, music, photo and subtitle formats the device supports.
For subtitles, the device profile may require you to manually override its subtitle settings to better match your particular model. This often occurs when a device’s model has regional differences (e.g. models from North America, Europe, Australia, Asia, Japan). Regional differences include the subtitle languages that are supported, fonts that are supported and encodings / code pages that are supported..
To override the subtitle settings for a device, go to the Devices Settings dialog (Subtitles tab) for your device:
- Click Media Server / Media Devices.
- Select your device and click Edit to display the Device Settings dialog.
- Go to the Subtitles tab to view and change all your device’s subtitle settings.
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The Device Settings dialog (Subtitles page) lets you override the global subtitle settings from the Options dialog (Subtitles page) for these subtitle attributes:
- Streaming rules: External, Embedded, or Burn.
- Preferred subtitle languages
Tip: With Mezzmo, you can stream your preferred subtitle language of (say) English to all your devices in your home by setting the global subtitle language in the Options dialog. You can also have certain devices in your home stream a different preferred subtitle language of (say) French by setting this preferred language in the Device Settings dialog (Subtitles tab).
To change the language preference for a particular device:
- Click the Edit button next to “Preferred subtitle language” .
- Click the Add button to add more languages to the list.
- Use the Up and Down buttons to change the language preference order.
- Click OK to save your changes.
Device Settings
Note: To modify the subtitle settings for your device using the Device Settings dialog, you may need to read the the device’s manual or product web site to learn what kind of subtitle support that your device has. Also, try searching for your device model on the internet since there may be owner forums that can help you. Finally, you may just try to stream the movie with your subtitles to confirm that your new settings are working as expected.
Note: Support for displaying subtitles on a device can be different depending on how you play the video that has subtitles. For example, a device may or may not display subtitles when:
- playing the video by SMB direct access or by USB (i.e. not by UpnP or DLNA!)
- playing the video by streaming it using DLNA/UPnP (like Mezzmo server does)
For example: Western Digital TV Live Hub (WD TV Live Hub) media players display VobSub subtitles (two files: .IDX and .SUB) when playing a video by SMB or USB, but do not when playing the video via DLNA/UPnP.
Example: Owner’s Manual for a LG Network 3D Blu-ray Disc Player. Supported video containers and subtitles:
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Corresponding Device settings in Mezzmo based on the above device requirements:
Supported video containers:
- Embedded: AVI *)
- External: empty (none of the containers have been excluded, in other words: external files are always working with supported video files).
Supported subtitle formats:
- Embedded: FFmpeg:xsub *)
- External: SubRip (srt), SAMI Caption (.smi), Advanced Substation Alpha (ass) SubStation Alpha (ssa), MicroDVD (sub,txt), SubViewer 1 (sub), SubViewer 2 (sub),TMPlayer (txt), TMPlayer Multiline (txt), DVD Subtitle System (txt)
- Encoding: 1252 Western Europe *)
- BOM no, as Unicode is not supported by this particular LG media device *)
*) These settings are based on our typical experience when streaming with LG Blu-ray players.
To adjust the subtitle settings for a particular device in Mezzmo, you need to answer the following questions:
A. Does the device support external and/or embedded subtitles?
Modify the streaming subtitle rules by changing the following checkboxes:
- Stream external subtitles
- Stream embedded subtitles
- Burn subtitles
Note: These streaming subtitle rules are in the order that Mezzmo chooses to stream subtitles – i.e. stream external subtitles first, then if not possible to try embedding, and finally if none of these options are available, then transcode the video with subtitles burned in.
Extracting Embedded Subtitles
Mezzmo allows you to extract embedded subtitles from the original video file and use them as external files. This is useful particularly for devices where embedded subtitles are not supported but external subtitles are supported or burning is the only option for displaying subtitles.
Extraction of the subtitles from video files can be executed manually, one by one. Mezzmo ver:3.2 offer automatic extraction of the embedded subtitles into the cache so all are ready to use to stream as external or used for burning.
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== Advanced ==
Mezzmo includes several third party software tools to extract embedded subtitles.
You can adjust the software tools used by Mezzmo to your needs.
Note: Adjusting the tools requires advanced technical knowledge and is only recommended for users with expert knowledge of these tools and video subtitles.
To modify the tools used to extract embedded subtitles:
- Click Tools / Options to display the Options dialog.
- Select the Subtitles / Advanced tab.
- Click the Edit Application List button.
- The Mezzmo configuration file (called MezzmoMediaServer.INI) will be open in Notepad for editing.
- Locate the sections marked by [SubsExtract-XX] tags. Inspect and modify the rules as required.
- Save the text file to accept and reload tools used by Mezzmo to extract embedded subtitles.
Testing the rules:
- Select a video with embedded subtitles.
- Click Edit / Properties to display the Properties dialog.
- Go to the Subtitles tab.
- Select an embedded subtitle track form the list.
- Click the Extract Subtitles button and wait until it has completed.
- Any new extracted subtitle files will be loaded automatically by the Subtitle Settings dialogyou’re your verification.
- Adjust the language, code page and font if required.
- Click OK to add new external subtitle to your Mezzmo library.
Sample of the Extraction Rules:
[SubsExtract-1]
Name=MKVToolNix
Path=c:\Mezzmo\Third\MKVToolNix\mkvextract.exe
Argm=tracks "<SrcFile>" <TrackNr>:"<OutDir><OutName><LangId>.<TrackNr><Out Ext>"
Rule=matroska
[SubsExtract-2]
Name=OGMDemuxer
Path=c:\Mezzmo\Third\OGMDemuxer\OGMDemuxer.exe
Argm=tracks "<SrcFile>" <TrackNr>:"<OutDir><OutName><LangId>.<TrackNr><Out Ext>"
Rule=.ogg.ogm.ogv
[SubsExtract-3]
Name=FFMpeg
Path=c:\Mezzmo\FFMpeg.exe
Argm=-y -i "<SrcFile>" -map 0:<TrackNr> -an -vn -c:s:0 copy -f ass "<OutDir><OutName><LangId>.<TrackNr>.ass"
Rule=ass
Rules are processed in the order from first to the last until they match the video format identifier.
The tool’s command line is executed with the substituted arguments. Output files are saved into
default folder for subtitles - typically in the Videos folder under the Windows Documents folder:
C:\Users\{USER}\Videos\Subtitles
Subtitle Extraction Rules specification for Plug-Ins:
[SubsExtract-idx] - section for the rule, where “idx” is an ordinary number in order
Name - name of the rule
Path - full path to the executable file (extraction tool)
Argm - arguments for the extraction tool
Rule - list of the identifiers of video or subtitles formats, where the rule should be applied,
where:
- Video Container IDs as reported by FFmpeg, separated by commas.
Example: matroska,mpeg,mpegts,avi,mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 - Subtitle Format IDs as reported by FFmpeg/Mezzmo, separated by commas.
Example: subrip,sami,ass,ssa,microdvd,subviewer,mov_text,dv d_subtitle - Video File Name Extension IDs separated by dots.
Example: .ogg.ogm.ogv.avi.mpg.divx.mkv
Command line arguments are substituted by Mezzmo with the keywords as following:
<SrcFile> - Full path to the video file for processing.
<Index> - Natural Index of subtitles on Video Properties list.
<TrackNr> - Absolute Track Index as reported by FFMpeg Info
<TrackIdx> - Relative Index as FFMpeg order for subtitles class
<OutPath> - Destination folder (as recommended by Mezzmo).
<OutName> - Output file name (as recommended by Mezzmo)
<LangID> - Language identifier, eg: ".pl"
<OutExt> - Output file extension (as recommended by Mezzmo) eg: ".srt"
<Codec> - Detected subtitles codec (as reported by FFmpeg or Mezzmo)
How to verify delivery rules with Mezzmo server? - Mezzmo Diagnostic Tools
Mezzmo lets you check onscreen how Mezzmo is going to deliver subtitles for your device - even before playing the video:
- Click Tools / Options to display the Options dialog.
- Select the Logging tab.
- Select the “Add diagnostic text to titles for troubleshooting” checkbox.
- Click OK to save your changes.
- Restart your Mezzmo server and browse your videos on your device to see extended information about your videos when listed.
To check whether your device supports certain video/audio formats and containers:
- Click Media Server / Media Devices.
- Select your device and click Edit to display the Device Settings dialog.
- Go to the Transcoding tab.
- Turn off the “Transcode incompatible media files” checkbox.
- Click OK to save your changes.
- Stream your video to your device.
Adjust the delivery rules for subtitles as described in “Device Profile and Device Settings” and then connect to your Mezzmo server using your device. Using your device’s remote control navigate to the Videos section and scroll down the list of your videos.
Mezzmo will add a special suffix to the video title with the following keys:
(VideoFormatID + SubtitlesID = OutputID)
where:
VideoFormatID - identifier of the original video format,
examples: mkv, vob, avi, mpeg
SubtitlesID - identifier of the subtitle delivery rules:
sn - subtitles are not available for the movie
sx - external subtitle file will be delivered
si - video is having some embedded subtitles
se - video with embedded subtitles will be delivered
sb - subtitles are burnt into the video
srt - format used for conversion of the external subtitles
*) The numbers used by SubtitlesID are internal identifiers of the subtitle tracks.
OutputID - identifier of the video to be delivered
orig - streaming original video file
trns - streaming transcoded or remuxed video file by one of the nominated containers like "avi", "mpegts", ...
Examples:
“my video (avi+sx123srt=orig)” - streaming original AVI file with external subtitles converted to SubRip (srt)
“our video (mpg+sb345=trns)” - streaming transcoded video with subtitles burned in
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Restore your original settings:
- Turn on the “Transcode incompatible media files” checkbox.
- Turn off the “Add diagnostic text to titles for troubleshooting” checkbox.
- Restart your Mezzmo server.
Streaming subtitles to your Android or Apple iOS mobile devices
Mezzmo DLNA/UPnP server lets you stream video files with subtitles to all Android or Apple iOS mobile devices.
- Install a DLNA / UPnP Control Point or Media Server app on you mobile phone or tablet. For example: BubbleUPnP, MediaHouse, AirPlayer or similar apps.
- Install a media player app on you mobile phone or tablet that is able to play video, music and photos. For example: MX Player Pro, VPlayer or similar apps.
Note: Make sure the media player supports embedded or external subtitles. - Run the DLNA / UPnP Control Point or Media Server app on your mobile device.
- Select DEVICES or SERVERS menu, and select Mezzmo as your streaming server.
- Select LIBRARY or BROWSE and navigate to the list of the files you wish to play.
- Select the video and choose to PLAY.
- Select Local Media Player (or Local Renderrer) to play your video on your mobile device using your preferred media player app.
Note: Some media player apps may require you turn on subtitles when playing video. Look for the icon [Text] or menu item [Subtitles] and select the subtitle track to display.
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The best experience with Mezzmo DLNA server on PC for Android tablets and mobile phone:
Mezzmo (Android) DLNA/UPnP server + MXPlayer media player, supporting all popular formats and external and embedded subtitles.
BubbleUPnP DLNA/UPnP server + MXPlayer media player, supporting many popular formats and external and embedded subtitles.
BubbleUPnP DLNA/UPnP server + VPlayer media player, supporting many popular formats and external and embedded subtitles.
BubbleUPnP DLNA/UPnP server + VLC media player, supporting all popular formats and embedded subtitles.
MediaHouse DLNA/UPnP server + VLC media player, supporting all popular formats and embedded subtitles (external are not supported).
The best experience with Mezzmo DLNA server on PC for iPad/iPhone (iOS):
AirPlayer DLNA/UPnP server and media player , supporting many popular formats, external and embedded subtitles.
MediaConnect DLNA/UPnP server and media player , supporting many popular formats and embedded subtitles.
PlayerXtreme HD DLNA/UPnP server and media player , supporting many popular formats and embedded subtitles.
ArcMC DLNA/UPnP server, using iPad media player, limited formats, no subtitles.
Note: for optimal performance choose Mezzmo device profile like: "Bubble To ...", "ArcMC" or "VLC",
offering most of the formats without transcoding.
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In most cases, the video will play and the subtitles will be displayed. In case of troubles:
- Run Mezzmo and click the Media Server / Media Devices menu item.
- Locate your mobile device on the device list.
- Check the device profile being used. It is possible that a different device profile needs to selected to work better with your mobile device and the media player app that you are playing your videos.
- Double click on your device to display the Device Settings dialog. On the General tab, select a better suited device profile. For example, "Android To MXVideoPlayer".
- Restart your Mezzmo DLNA Server.
- Restart the DLNA / UPnP Media Server app on your mobile device and try streaming again.
Tip: Some media player apps may require you turn on subtitles when playing video. Look for the icon [Text] or menu item [Subtitles] and select the subtitle track to display.
How to extract subtitles from DVD rip.
Note: These instruction are for extracting DVD Subtitles from the set of files, typically organized by fixed file names and index of the group:
VTS_01_0.IFO - first title, information file
VTS_01_0.VOB - leading file
VTS_01_1.VOB - video part 1
VTS_01_2.VOB - video part 2
VTS_01_3.VOB - video part 3
VTS_02_0.IFO - second title information file
VTS_02_0.VOB - eading file
VTS_02_1.VOB - video part 1
VTS_02_2.VOB - video part 2
VTS_02_3.VOB - video part 3
Make sure you have identified the files as above. Use media player, like VLC to verify that first part is actually the movie and is having embedded dvd subtitles.
- Get VobSub Subtitle Ripper Wizard (VSRip.exe 428KB), it is free software by Gabest (Copyrights 2003)
Unzip, and store the executable in a folder.
- Run VSRip.exe
- Click [Load IFO] button to select input for processing, it should be the IFO file from the title group.
Note: in case “ERROR: Invalid ifo” message, verify the path to the file is having only ASCII characters - multilanguage naming is not accepted by VSRip tool.
- Click [Save To…] button to select output folder, and specify the prefix name for the VobSub files.
It should be a name like “VTS_01_1” to match first part video file.
- Click [Next >] button and choose settings. You may extract all languages or just one,
Vob/Cell IDS should be all selected.
- Click [Next >] button to start processing.
Successful extraction is reported by “Done!”, close the application.
- Verify the output folder, expected files:
VTS_01_1.idx - first VobSub file
VTS_01_1.sub - second VobSub file
VTS_01_1.chunks - this file may be deleted, Mezzmo is not using it
- Add VobSub subtitles to Mezzmo.
Open Video Properties dialog, select Subtitles tab:
Click [Add Subtitles] button and select newly created "VTS_01_1.IDX" file.
Use preview dialog to verify the subtitles.
Click OK to accept. All detected subtitles and languages will be added to the movie
and used for burning as required.
Tip: external VobSub subtitles are generally not supported by DLNA media devices, and there is no other choice as to burn them by full video transcoding. The above procedure will be automated in the following Mezzmo 3.3 updates.