AutoGK subtitles playback

[Benjemimah]

The anime that I encoded using AutoGK on my previous computer is capable of using external subtitles, but everything I encode now can't... the subtitles looks fine in SubtitleWorkshop, but there's no Stream 2 for subtitles in the recently encoded films and no option to view subtitles when I play them back in vlc/sasami2k/whatever.

I have enabled external subtitles within AutoGK, but the DVDs themselves don't have any subtitles - is that an issue? I do have winrar3.30 installed, although only on it's trial period.

Sorry for the lack of any useful specifics, but I'm totally at a loss as to what I was doing right before, and why it isn't working now...

[len0x]

Originally posted by Benjemimah
I have enabled external subtitles within AutoGK, but the DVDs themselves don't have any subtitles - is that an issue? I do have winrar3.30 installed, although only on it's trial period.


If you don't see subtitles in the drop down combobox, then you obviously won't have them after encode... Are you sure that you're using DVD mode of AutoGK and IFO mode of DVDDecrypter ?

[Benjemimah]

Sorry, perhaps I wasn't clear: I'm in Japan, so the Japanese language DVDs I'm encoding don't have any subtitles. I need to use homegrown/downloaded subtitles in order to understand the bulk of what's being said.

When playing back the old AutoGK-encoded .avis I can right-click during playback or otherwise activate .srt/.smi files that I've written/downloaded, but I'm unable to do this with recently encoded AutoGK .avis.

Yes, I am using the correct IFO/DVD modes.


EDIT: I think I may have successfully fudged it by adding a fake subtitle line to the VTS_1 - Stream information (0x20 - Subtitle - English - [SubPicture 01: Wide] / LBA: 1 / PTS: 00:00:00.000 / Delay: 0ms). I won't know for sure until the encoding finishes but I hope that by doing this the External subtitles feature will be activated so I can actually use my .srt subtitles when playing it back.

My question still stands though: is there a more elegant way to do this, or would I normally be unable to use my .srts with AutoGK encoded DVDs unless they have some form of subtitling streams on the DVD itself?

[len0x]

aha, to use your own external subs you have to name them the same as you avi file(s) otherwise DirectVobSub will not pick them...

p.s. don't play with stream info file - it won't matter if you don't have subs on DVD...

[Benjemimah]

OK, whatever problem I have must be with vlc and not AutoGK. Seems that Sasami2k can detect and display external .smi subtitles with the .avis I've encoded, even though vlc can't seem to use any of the various formats I've tried, despite them being identically named...

I'll quit bugging ye now. Thanks for the user-friendly app =)