Prevent unneeded stop/start

components/manager/ViewCreator.bs

@@ -99,6 +99,13 @@ sub processSubtitleSelection()
     ' The playbackData is now outdated and must be refreshed
     m.playbackData = invalid
 
+    ' Find previously selected subtitle and identify if it was encoded
+    for each item in m.view.fullSubtitleData
+        if item.index = m.view.selectedSubtitle
+            m.view.previousSubtitleWasEncoded = item.IsEncoded
+        end if
+    end for
+
     if LCase(m.selectedSubtitle.track.description) = "none"
         m.view.globalCaptionMode = "Off"
         m.view.subtitleTrack = ""

components/video/VideoPlayerView.bs

@@ -256,8 +256,17 @@ end sub
 
 ' Event handler for when selectedSubtitle changes
 sub onSubtitleChange()
-    ' If the global caption mode is on, that means Roku can display the subtitles natively and doesn't need a video stop/start
+    switchWithoutRefresh = true
-    if LCase(m.top.globalCaptionMode) = "on" then return
+
+    if m.top.SelectedSubtitle <> -1
+        ' If the global caption mode is off, then Roku can't display the subtitles natively and needs a video stop/start
+        if LCase(m.top.globalCaptionMode) <> "on" then switchWithoutRefresh = false
+    end if
+
+    ' If previous sustitle was encoded, then we need to a video stop/start to change subtitle content
+    if m.top.previousSubtitleWasEncoded then switchWithoutRefresh = false
+
+    if switchWithoutRefresh then return
 
     ' Save the current video position
     m.global.queueManager.callFunc("setTopStartingPoint", int(m.top.position) * 10000000&)

components/video/VideoPlayerView.xml

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
     <field id="PlaySessionId" type="string" />
     <field id="Subtitles" type="array" />
     <field id="SelectedSubtitle" type="integer" value="-2" alwaysNotify="true" />
+    <field id="previousSubtitleWasEncoded" type="boolean" />
     <field id="container" type="string" />
     <field id="directPlaySupported" type="boolean" />
     <field id="systemOverlay" type="boolean" value="false" />