missing idx from sub

[magneez]

hi

i have a pair of .sub files without idx so media player /w vobsub cant read them.

any suggestions how to make them workable?


the beginning of the first file:

===


{HEAD
DISCID=
DVDTITLE=
CODEPAGE=1250
FORMAT=ASCII
LANG=EN
TITLE=1
ORIGINAL=ORIGINAL
AUTHOR=
WEB=
INFO=
LICENSE=
}
{T 00:00:22:00
מסעו של קפיטן פרקסה
}
{T 00:00:27:07

}
{T 00:00:27:97
עם
וינסנט פרז
}
{T 00:00:30:14

etc.

===

the beginning of the second :

===

TITLE=
FILE=
AUTHOR=
TYPE=VIDEO
FORMAT=TIME
NOTE=

1.09 2.51
!ולמה לא? יופי! יופי

2.85 2.71
...!יופי יופי, שיהיה שחקן

9.73 5.48
!נשבו, נשפו רוחות, עד אשר יתפוצצו לחייכם

2.55 2.21
!נו, תדחפו כבר, עצלנים

2.21 5.02
...של חרבי הבלתי מנוצחת....

2.04 3.32
...זה רק בסיס, מתאר... אתה יכול לאלתר על זה

0 5.42
...אה... ואני מוכן...מוכנוס לקצוץ ראשימוס

0 2.29
...ראשימוס של מאה

0 4.31
"מאה וחמישים שחצנים של הצבא הטורקי"

0.62 1.64
אה... מאה וחמישים

8.68 1.58
"...תרועות חצוצרה, רשרוש כלי"

0 4.89
!צרבינה! המפרש! תעלי אותו
!תדחפו

8.6 1
!דוכסי היקר

0 1.65
?המרקיז דה לה ברוייר, מה שלומך

0 1
.חיכינו רק לך

0.97 1.64
.אז הנה הגעתי

0.66 1.5
!מרקיז-מישנה ניקולו

0.5 2.77
!זה תמיד תענוג גדול עבורי לראות אותך

0 2.
etc.

====

thanx

[smiller667]

I am no subtitle expert, but this doesn't look like a vobsub subtitle to me. If it was, the .sub file would be binary only (correct me if I am wrong) as it contains the original subtitle streams (which are bitmaps).

What you have looks like some text-based subtitle format. Try to open with subtitle workshop and see if you can convert it to something dvobsub would accept.

[niamh]

I'm a bit stumped as to what it is(.sub covers a lot of formats), but vobsub does read a certain number of text files:srt, sub, psb, smi, ssa, ass. If it doesnt' work(with vobsub on always load, and having the subs in the same folder and having the same name as the movie), you can do as smiller says and convert it to an ordinary subviewer sub, or a srt through subtitle workshop.

Make sure that you have the latest vobsub to support unicode,which your subs seem to be made of(from what my win2k tells me anyway)(any vobsub version >2.04), and if your OS is win9x, this is what the vobsub docs say:
- Since windows 9x doesn't support most of the unicode part of the windows API, you won't be able to use/watch unicode files under those operating systems.

I hope that helps a bit :)