Ian Baker

Thanks for providing the media - it looks like the subtitles are in VobSub format. This isn't supported by ExoPlayer. We would accept a high quality pull request implementing support...

I haven't investigated too deeply, but some rough hints/suggestions: * When I play this file in the demo app, the text track isn't even logged in logcat [1] - I'd...

Ah I've realised I missed a couple of points from your comment: >3- any general/VobSub media encoding encoding/decoding resource that can help me out I don't have any resources on...

When looking into this file for #8271 I noticed that the `track` box with `id=4` (the vobsub one) has `handler=subp` which isn't mentioned in ISO 14496-12 as a valid handler...

Interesting question. It looks like that was added in https://github.com/google/ExoPlayer/commit/27ab1a2e65fc2485392a84975cb11e290ced2908. From the code in that commit it seems it implements parsing the vobsub data from the container, but no further...

> Does this change anything? We would need the simplest solution to implement in our forked repo. This means you don't need to know whether a property was originally 'unset'...

What do you expect to see with this file? It seems to have a single cue starting at `0:00:03.00`, ending at `0:01:33.00` with very long text (collapsed below). Your screenshot...

I loaded your example file in the demo app built at 1.2.1 and I see the text on the screen:  Do you see the same in the demo app...

I'm afraid we can't really assist further without being able to reproduce the behaviour where the subtitles don't show up, especially as the reported behaviour of the subtitles showing up...

> The target would be instead: > None > Italiano - Forced > Italiano - Regular If you're inspecting a `Format` object, you can determine whether it corresponds to the...