Any recommended hardware device to ensure that I won’t need to transcode in order to burn ASS and PGS subtitles?
Right now I have a FireTV but it only direct plays SRT.
I could be wrong but ass and pgs are image based and are “burned” because that’s the only way to make them compatible. Burning requires transcoding, end of story.
ass are text-based.
Oh ok, that sucks :(
I wonder what streaming services do to offer the ASS-like (hehe) subs without the burning delays.
That is a very interesting title if you don’t realize what community it’s posted in
Anything Android-based using the builtin Exoplayer (Google’s open-source AOSP media player of choice for Android) will need transcoding since Exo doesn’t support styled subtitles fully.
https://github.com/google/ExoPlayer/issues/8435
Feel free to echo your frustration there, Google is unlikely to care otherwise I’m afraid.
