Overlay subtitle on stream problem

[evilcraftknife]

Hi All

I'm new to this group so please go easy on me if I'm doing something lame.

We have a device on our network which streams a DVB stream via udp://@239.192.0.51:5004. We also have wireless mini-pcs(Hannspree) connected to displays where the video is constantly breaking up. So Enter VLC on Windows, where I transcode, overlay subs, resize the video and re-stream the UDP stream via http to the Hannspree devices. Wahey, all is good. Now for something a little more permanent. I spin up an Ubuntu VM, patch it up date and install VLC 2.1.6. The video streams fine to the Hannspree devices but the subtitles aren't being overlaid onto the video even though I copied the settings from VLC my Windows PC.

In Ubuntu, I use: cvlc udp://@239.192.0.51:5004 --network-caching=1000 --sout '#transcode{vcodec=mp4v,vb=4000,scale=0.75,scodec=dvbs,soverlay}:http{mux=ts,dst=:1234/bbcnews}'

Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks in advance

Kev

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Different VLC version? Missing plugin or encoder?

[evilcraftknife]

Yeah, the VLC on my Windows PC is 2.2.1. Not sure how to check for availability of encoders. In practice, does what I'm doing seem a reasonable idea though?

[evilcraftknife]

Silly me. I updated Ubuntu to the latest and it works fine now. Thanks for your help.