Subtitles

[luisscripts]

How about subtitles, can it stream with subtitles (.srt)?

[Jstudner]

I am Actually going to leave this one open for a bit. I would like to add subtitles support, and It should be possible, but for now the front end and backend don't support it. For like anime I just burn in the subtitles (use handbrake, it adds them onto the video directly)

If anyone has thoughts on subtitle support let me know, I am going to add it to the to-do!

[luisscripts]

From what i could gather around (not a programmer myself) the ESP32 shares both .mp4 and .srt files, so it would be on the client side to use them. For example kodi, if both names (.mp4 and .srt) are coincident, kodi will load them, the only problem being if the MIME type isn't text/plain or application/x-subrip. For that the function mimeType() should include .srt in the source code...
For playing direcltly in the browser i don't think it will be that easy...

[mhschmall]

It all depends on who your users are: If you intend to serve a mostly handheld audience, then you going to want to reduce your videos to 360p and you might as well cook the subs in. I say focus on other requests and come back to this one.

[Jstudner]

I'm working on the big fat polish update to finally get main caught up to experimental, then I will probably take another peak at this. I have the new board for nomad studio and it's a feature I really really want for the higher quality video files.

[Jstudner]

Ok, I added some of this to the last update but I got super basic srt compatibility working. I am still considering switching the video player to use a JS library that would offer better support, but the next update will include some level of srt support for files of the same name, so you will need movie1.jpg, movie1.mp4, and movie1.srt. but it should offer a cleaner solution for many users.