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howardchung / watchparty

Watch anything together in-sync with your friends
https://www.watchparty.me
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MKV .SRT support #844

Closed cyber-sec0 closed 10 months ago

cyber-sec0 commented 10 months ago

It does stream .MKV videos, but it is still asking for the .SRT file, although the .MKV video already has the .SRT subs built in...

Can this support be added in the future?

howardchung commented 10 months ago

This is dependent on the browser adding support for MKV subtitle tracks.

cyber-sec0 commented 10 months ago

Oh ok, but can't you like run ffmeg on the server side and extract the srt from the mkv?

I wish I could select the mkv video file itself as a subtitle option

howardchung commented 10 months ago

Running ffmpeg to transcode the video on the server would solve a lot of compatibility issues--unfortunately it would also be pretty expensive.

cyber-sec0 commented 10 months ago

Sad to hear that, seems like the only choice is to make it, but released as an extra premium more expensive feature.