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felixlinares
13th July 2007, 05:14
I hope someone could help me.

I've a movie with .idx+.sub subtitles, but using vobsub , sutitles timings are wrong. Even worse if the subtitle files are in the same directory where the video file is the player crashes ( zoom player, WMP, VLC , no exeptions) , but if i put the subtitles in a separate directory and configure fddshow to load the subtitles and display them the video plays fine and the subtitles appear well timed as they shoud do.

The problem for me is that I want to convert the .idx+.sub subtitles into srt I used subrip tweaking the options I was able to extract the subs without the correct timing , if I indicate subrip to utilize the file's timing it gets wrong the subs even cant get the subs sometimes showing a dissorted image.

I've tried many different codec packs but the result is the same.

manusse
13th July 2007, 21:22
Hi,

How did you produce your sub/idx file?
Also note that some software use the sub file to get the timings and some the idx file. They should be the same but some program like SubtitleCreator have bugs (I've written this part of SC, so I know ;-) and don't write the same timings in the sub and the idx files (only for NTSC subtitles).

Cheers
Manusse

felixlinares
14th July 2007, 16:37
Thanks for your reply

I didnt produced de sub/ix, a friend gave me the movie he told me he download it from a torrent file, it's the musical Notre Dame de Paris, the movie came with subs in english french and spanish but none displays well using vobsub

this is the first part of the .idx file in french:

# VobSub index file, v7 (do not modify this line!)
#
# Generated by MPlayer 1.0pre6-3.3
# See <URL:http://www.mplayerhq.hu/> for more information about MPlayer
# See <URL:http://vobsub.edensrising.com/> for more information about Vobsub
#
size: 720x576
palette: ee450d, df8f1e, ecc014, ecfa0c, 95cc24, 53a42f, 0de60d, 0cb5ed, 0f00ef, 580f5f, e7e7e7, d7d7d7, aaaaaa, 7e7e7e, 535353, 222222
# ON: displays only forced subtitles, OFF: shows everything
forced subs: OFF

# Language index in use
langidx: 0

id: fr, index: 0
timestamp: 00:01:12:220, filepos: 000000000
timestamp: 00:01:15:360, filepos: 000000800
timestamp: 00:01:18:820, filepos: 000001000
timestamp: 00:01:21:660, filepos: 000001800
timestamp: 00:01:25:080, filepos: 000002000
timestamp: 00:01:28:260, filepos: 000002800
timestamp: 00:01:31:560, filepos: 000003000
timestamp: 00:01:34:240, filepos: 000003800
timestamp: 00:01:38:240, filepos: 000004000
timestamp: 00:01:45:700, filepos: 000004800
timestamp: 00:01:49:820, filepos: 000005000
timestamp: 00:01:52:680, filepos: 000005800
timestamp: 00:01:52:700, filepos: 000006000

as you can see the last subtitle is too short, using vobsub to display subtitles this subtitle is almost unreadable due its short time, however usinf fddshow to show subtitles the subtitle display and timing is ok.

mahsah
3rd August 2007, 23:48
Uh, I would delete this thread if I were you. Rule 6.

You can try resynching the SRT file you made with subtitle workshop (my personal favorite).