Naming under the trailers folders are random names.
Any news on this front? Would love the ability to read subfolders like this.
I would love to have channels auto detect trailers from youtube and just present them to us, like Kodi does.
Curious, what third party tool is this?
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This should work now.
This is also now supported.
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Can you detail a little bit about what has changed?
Do I just update channels dvr to get this working?
The build fixes the two mentioned issues.
.en.srt wasn't being recognized. Now it is
/Trailers/*.srt wasn't being recognized. Now it is.
You can update to prerelease, then click Refresh Metadata on an import to scan for extras
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Awesome work!
I’m going to be greedy, any chance we can get all the extras working to?
Any chance of *.LANG.forced.srt or is this included, too.
Yes it should work.
@tmm1 Subtitles works great now and I don't have to rename the srt files 
I am having one slight issue. When I place the srt in the same folder as the video file in the imports directory it is not deleted when I delete the video from the channels UI. The end result is that I have a lot of orphaned directories that just contain an srt since channels deleted the video. Would it be possible when Channels deletes show_name.mp4 to also delete show_name*.srt?
I could build a cron job to look for orphaned srt's and delete them but I thought I would mention this in case it was an easy enhancement to do.
Thanks!
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@tmm1 I have a script that I run to download srt files, syncs them to the video and then copies both files to the Channels server. What I am finding is that the srt files sometimes show up in channels and sometimes they don't. Is there something I need to run to force Channels to look for srt's?
In the example below I have the files in the directory and then the screenshot from channels. I tried refreshing metadata but that didn't pick them up either. I can upload these to you if that is of any value
FYI both the video and the srt files in these examples were uploaded at the same time to the channels server. After about 5 minutes I saw the video show up in "TV Shows"
-rwxrwxr-x 1 seth seth 67112 Oct 24 14:52 'The Rookie - S05E02 - Labor Day.eng.srt'
-rwxrwxr-x 1 seth seth 289159875 Oct 24 14:50 'The Rookie - S05E02 - Labor Day.mkv'
Here is one that did work fine, you can see in Channels that track 2 is listed as subrip subtitle.
-rwxrwxr-x 1 seth seth 48337 Oct 23 19:28 'Dark Winds - S01E02 - The Male Rain Approaches.eng.srt'
-rwxrwxr-x 1 seth seth 3324461074 Oct 23 19:27 'Dark Winds - S01E02 - The Male Rain Approaches.mkv'
View Details screen does not show srt files. In your second screenshot there is already a subtitle track built into the mkv file and that's what is being shown.
@tmm1 How do I select the external srt file? Usually I select Track 2 to show the ones I downloaded. I can tell it is the one that I added because it is more in sync and more accurate than track 1.
As a test I copied the second file out of the directory, deleted it and added it back. I see that the details screen looks the same so maybe for that file my srt was never imported? When I deleted it the srt remained and was not deleted. Maybe that is evidence that it was never processed?
I guess my question is how can I verify that the srt was processed and how to I confirm I am selecting the desired srt in the show?
Under File ID click the number, then you should see the srt shown under Extras
@tmm1 OK. So I think i am understanding. So since the there is no subtitle listed on the details screen, that means that the client will just show the option to turn on/off closed captions when I add my own srt file. If the video file has closed captions already and I add my own, my srt will just show as the last "track" correct?
Also I deleted that show and then emptied the trash. the srt remained.
'The Rookie - S05E02 - Labor Day.eng.srt'
Correct, the srt file is added as a new caption track at the end by the player.
Currently only .srt file is deleted so the .eng.srt is sticking around.
Ahh gotcha. Is that something that is going to be fixed? I can modify my process to rename them if not.
This update for the captions have been a huge quality of life improvement. Now all of my Virtual Channels have captions! Seriously, thank you so much for making this work.
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