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azad
29th April 2004, 10:11
DVD-RB 0.4x seems to have a problem with reading or "rebuilding" the correct subtitle timecodes.
After rebuilding the second disc of "LOTR - The Two Towers - SEE" PAL RC2 I noticed that the
forced subtitles are being displayed with a small delay compared to the original DVD. You can also
see that there is a small difference between what the character just says and the time the subtitle
is displayed.
I used VobSub to compare the timecodes of the original DVD and the backup done with DVD-RB.
The difference between each timecode of the original and the backup is +80ms.
Following are some examples of the original and the backup subtitle timecodes read out with VobSub:

Original:
# Vob/Cell ID: 1, 1 (PTS: 0)
timestamp: 00:00:04:760, filepos: 000000000
timestamp: 00:00:07:680, filepos: 000001000
timestamp: 00:00:11:360, filepos: 000002000
timestamp: 00:00:14:560, filepos: 000003000
timestamp: 00:00:16:760, filepos: 000003800
timestamp: 00:00:19:080, filepos: 000004800
timestamp: 00:00:21:000, filepos: 000005000
timestamp: 00:00:27:080, filepos: 000006000
timestamp: 00:00:35:040, filepos: 000006800
timestamp: 00:00:37:600, filepos: 000007800
# Vob/Cell ID: 1, 2 (PTS: 41680)

Backup:
# Vob/Cell ID: 1, 1 (PTS: 0)
timestamp: 00:00:04:840, filepos: 000000000
timestamp: 00:00:07:760, filepos: 000001000
timestamp: 00:00:11:440, filepos: 000002000
timestamp: 00:00:14:640, filepos: 000003000
timestamp: 00:00:16:840, filepos: 000003800
timestamp: 00:00:19:160, filepos: 000004800
timestamp: 00:00:21:080, filepos: 000005000
timestamp: 00:00:27:160, filepos: 000006000
timestamp: 00:00:35:120, filepos: 000006800
timestamp: 00:00:37:680, filepos: 000007800
# Vob/Cell ID: 1, 2 (PTS: 41680)