VSFilter: FadeIn/FadeOut does not work

[LigH]

Dear Gabest, dear guliverkli developers,

today I downloaded the current versions of the VS-tools, ripped subtitles, edited a few of the options, especially raised the values for fadein/fadeout, and watched the preview of the subtitles using VSFilter Release Unicode in AviSynth 2.5.5 b2 (29th July).

Result: The subtitles don't fade, they just pop in/out.

# VobSub index file, v7 (do not modify this line!)
#
# To repair desyncronization, you can insert gaps this way:
# (it usually happens after vob id changes)
#
# delay: [sign]hh:mm:ss:ms
#
# Where:
# [sign]: +, - (optional)
# hh: hours (0 <= hh)
# mm/ss: minutes/seconds (0 <= mm/ss <= 59)
# ms: milliseconds (0 <= ms <= 999)
#
# Note: You can't position a sub before the previous with a negative value.
#
# You can also modify timestamps or delete a few subs you don't like.
# Just make sure they stay in increasing order.


# Settings

# Original frame size
size: 720x576

# Origin, relative to the upper-left corner, can be overloaded by aligment
org: 360, 512

# Image scaling (hor,ver), origin is at the upper-left corner or at the alignment coord (x, y)
scale: 90%, 120%

# Alpha blending
alpha: 80%

# Smoothing for very blocky images (use OLD for no filtering)
smooth: ON

# In millisecs
fadein/out: 400, 600

# Force subtitle placement relative to (org.x, org.y)
align: ON at CENTER BOTTOM

# For correcting non-progressive desync. (in millisecs or hh:mm:ss:ms)
# Note: Not effective in DirectVobSub, use "delay: ... " instead.
time offset: 0

# ON: displays only forced subtitles, OFF: shows everything
forced subs: OFF

# The original palette of the DVD
palette: 000000, 828282, 828282, 828282, 828282, 828282, 828282, ffffff, 828282, bababa, 828282, 828282, 828282, 828282, 828282, 828282

# Custom colors (transp idxs and the four colors)
custom colors: OFF, tridx: 0000, colors: 000000, 000000, 000000, 000000

# Language index in use
langidx: 1

...

[LigH]

The same behaviour for displaying subtitles in Media Player Classic (via *.idx+*.sub with the same filename as the *.avi): No soft fading, just immediate popping.

[LigH]

Looks like the whole 'guliverkli' team is on vacation (except some Matroska programmers): No sign of life in this thread, no assignment of any bugs listed in the SourceForge bug list... :(

[Dreassica]

softsubs do that..just disable prebuffering in vobsub settings.

[LigH]

"softsubs" :confused: - means "overlayed during playback"?

Then I shall do something "not recommended", as written in the MPC options for subtitles?

Anyway: I want them to be hard burned into the video, therefore I hope for any answers from guliverkli developers.

[LigH]

One more week, still no support...

[Liisachan]

VSFilter doesnt support a few special effects in hardsubbing via AVS, altho most common effects should work.
If you dont mind VD/VDM, tho being more or less slower than AVS, use Textsub.vdf for SSA, and vobsub_vd.vdf for IDX+SUB. They come with Vobsub 2.23 (not 2.33)
Using vobsub_vd.vdf in VD(M) you can preview fade-in/out effects in IDX+SUB too.

Originally posted by LigH
"softsubs" :confused: - means "overlayed during playback"?

Then I shall do something "not recommended", as written in the MPC options for subtitles? Yes, if you are softsubbing, you'll have to disable the pre-buffering to enable dynamic effects such as Karaoke or fade-out/in or animation.
Generally, that is not recommended because of high CPU load. But if your CPU is faster than like 1.5GHz, you can safely ignore that warning.

(NOTE: It is possible that really complicated effects don't work properly as softsub even with 3GHz+ CPU, even if you disable the prebuffering.)

[LigH]

I want to use VOBSUBs, because a few have rather hard-to-emulate special characters, I need to use the original bitmap subtitles.

And I want to burn them into the video, they are scene-subs, without them you would miss a lot of the content.

I'm quite unhappy with the fact that opacity effects are not present anymore in VSFilter.dll; maybe I shall try to load the original VobSub filter for AviSynth 2.0 via the compatibility loader, LoadPluginEx...

[LigH]

So I did, finally - and everything works well, as far as I can see:

LoadPlugin("DGDecode.dll")
LoadPlugin("LoadPluginEx2.dll")
LoadPlugin("vobsub.dll")
MPEG2Source("*.d2v")
ConvertToYUY2(interlaced=false)
VobSub("*")
...

[LigH]

http://forum.gleitz.info/images/smilies/ani_motz.gif VSFilter version 2.35 is out - and transparency is still broken.

[LigH]

Thank you very much for ignoring this bug over a year now!

http://sourceforge.net/support/tracker.php?aid=1007873