21.2: No SRT subtitles

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Hi guys! I’ve upgraded to the latest stable version on my Xoro player and everything appears to be working fine except for SRT subtitles that are muxed into the MKV I’m playing back from a plugged in USB flash drive.

The same files played back with subtitles on 9.2.8 just fine. Is this a known bug?

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Yes, it sometimes happens with embedded srt subs; does not happen with separate, loaded from a srt file subs. The work around I use is to skip back once or twice when video starts. In most case the srt subs then show and work OK.

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For embedded, seek is a issue. How Kodi should know some subs when they are skipped?
So you need to continue watching until new subs are demuxed from the stream.

External files are always read completely and can be synced with any seek position of the stream.

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My bad English got me wrong, I use “Seek Back” (when encountering such problem) NOT “Skip Back”. Why then the subs are working, I don’t know, but they do then show…

Btw, I believe it’s a Kodi 21.x bug, not related to CE, since I found the work around on kodi.tv forum…

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Gonna try if seek makes a difference, thanks. Can you also point me to the thread on the kodi.tv forums? Before posting here I’d searched for subtitles there but have not found any post so I assumed it might be a CoreELEC issue.

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First hit on forum.kodi → click But, forgot that it’s also related to CE

" However, if I seek back to the beginning of the file they work fine. "

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