Subtitles with DRM MPD

[FrenchWatcher]

I can't get subtitles with DRM MDP, i tryed with "Molotov Tv" and some others french provider without succes.
Is it a know bug ?

[Mona]

Please provide a log file. Thanks.

[FrenchWatcher]

Exactly there is no subtitles availaible in the menu.

[jpp72]

I wouldn't hold my breath...

Molotov uses DASH subtitles. Just like Discovery+. Just like anything that has an MPD really.

I have asked repeatedly for them to fix Discovery+ subtitles and i have even laid out the steps i use on DRM-free sites and yet, still nothing. Extremely frustrating.

Now that Warner Brothers owns Discovery+, i am very afraid that DRM is coming to Discovery+ shows and i won't be able to download my shows with subtitles.

Yes i could just sub to Amazon US' Discovery+ Channel but the bitrates are way too high for dumb reality shows...

I don't understand why they are not just parsing the MPD for subtitles and download them. Take a look at the MPD file for "Pour une poignée de dollars"

Opening it in Notepad++, we can see there are 2 subtitles. French and Italian:

    <AdaptationSet
      id="3"
      group="3"
      contentType="text"
      lang="fr"
      mimeType="application/mp4"
      codecs="stpp.ttml.im1t"
      startWithSAP="1">
      <Role schemeIdUri="urn:mpeg:dash:role:2011" value="subtitle" />
      <SegmentTemplate
        timescale="1000"
        duration="1920"
        endNumber="3013"
        initialization="REDACTED-$RepresentationID$.dash"
        media="REDACTED-$RepresentationID$-$Number$.m4s">
      </SegmentTemplate>
      <Representation
        id="3=1000"
        bandwidth="1000">
      </Representation>
    </AdaptationSet>
    <AdaptationSet
      id="4"
      group="3"
      contentType="text"
      lang="it"
      mimeType="application/mp4"
      codecs="stpp.ttml.im1t"
      startWithSAP="1">
      <Role schemeIdUri="urn:mpeg:dash:role:2011" value="subtitle" />
      <SegmentTemplate
        timescale="1000"
        duration="1920"
        endNumber="3013"
        initialization="REDACTED-$RepresentationID$.dash"
        media="REDACTED-$RepresentationID$-$Number$.m4s">
      </SegmentTemplate>
      <Representation
        id="4=1000"
        bandwidth="1000">
      </Representation>
    </AdaptationSet>​

I mean it's not rocket science.

The subtitles are not even DRM protected like on some other sites using MPD so i was able to download the French subtitles and convert them from TTML to SRT using the steps i describe in that linked post.

[FrenchWatcher]

Thanks jpp for your explaination

[FrenchWatcher]

Any update soon ?

[FrenchWatcher]

Always the same, no subtitle available.

[FrenchWatcher]

Any news about this ?

[Mona]

Any news about this ?

I am afraid not.