Subtitles .SRT are not displayed on the Sony Bravia TV while they are displayed on the Samsung TV

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I have plenty of MKV files with their SRT files stored on a DLNA server. Subtitles appear well when watching these movies on my Samsung TV, but do not appear on my Sony Bravia.
How can I solve the issue ? I've been told that Sony can only read "burnt-in" subtitles but I do not know what does that mean …
Thanks for help
Eric

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Burnt-in refers to subtitles that are directly encoded in the video stream. As such, they cannot be turned off and are of inferior rendering quality. Still, they are visible on anything that plays the video.

Handbrake offers options for creating videos files with subtitles burned in, though I haven't tried it yet.

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That's your error. You have text-based subtitles, so you need to burn them with the subtitles filter.

ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -filter:v subtitles=subtitles.srt output.mp4

The overlay filter only works when your subtitles are images, which is the case for dvdsub, for example.

Furthermore, the problem seems to be that your subtitle file is not formatted correctly. Your time stamp definition contains an en-dash (–) instead of a normal minus-hyphen (-):

–->

Replace it with a correct minus-hyphen:

-->

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