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Subtitle displays problems |
| dudeman316 posted 2009 Apr 10 18:04 |
| Some subtitles I have put on dvd's or divx files or other video types play back odd.
For instance, an italicized word will display <i >words </i > like HTML & instead of music notes, I get #. Is there a fix for this? So that they display correctly |
| dudeman316 posted 2009 Apr 17 12:12 |
| no one is able to help with this one? |
| Baldrick posted 2009 Apr 17 12:23 |
| How do you play? software player? vsfilter or ffdshow? divx dvd player? OR HOW?
I use vsfilter on my computer and I'm just using srt subs or sub/idx. |
| dudeman316 posted 2009 Apr 17 12:29 |
| I have a few options I use to play:
1.) I will convert Divx/Xvid to DVD using TMPGEnc DVD Author 3 with DivX Authoring & add subs that way & get this problem. 2.) Burn Divx/Xvid to DVD as Data & play back on both my standalone players. 3.) Same deal with my WD tv hd media player (which is a nice little device) |
| Midzuki posted 2009 Apr 17 12:45 |
| The actual problem is, some (if not all) hardware players don't support
the HMTL-styling for .srt files. Use idx/sub instead. |
| dudeman316 posted 2009 Apr 17 12:56 |
| is there a program that I can use to convert that you would recommend? |
| Baldrick posted 2009 Apr 17 12:58 |
| I would probably just remove html tags, maybe some subtitle can do that or google for html strip tags. |
| dudeman316 posted 2009 Apr 17 12:59 |
| what about music notes when there are songs? Is it html as well? |
| Midzuki posted 2009 Apr 17 13:16 |
| Probably that character doesn't exist in the font(s) used by the player. |
| jman98 posted 2009 Apr 17 13:24 |
| Midzuki is quite right. Many hardware players don't support HTML-styling and music symbols in SRT files. I just used WordPad or OpenOffice Writer (a clone of Microsoft Word) to remove such things from my SRT files. Too much trouble otherwise.
dudeman316 - I know it would be nice to have this stuff work, but are you REALLY going to insist that you can't live without this? It doesn't hinder understanding to not have a music note or italics in subtitles. |
| dudeman316 posted 2009 Apr 17 13:25 |
| thanks all for the replies, I can do fine without the music notes & all that, I just didnt want html code on the screen & I will just got through & remove them :) |
| usually_quiet posted 2009 Apr 17 17:29 |
| If you change your mind, I used Subtitle Creator to correct .srt files I had created using CCExtractor and convert them to .sups (for DVD authoring with IFOEdit). Music and italics in the edited .srts came out fine in the .sups.
If you don't change your mind, Subtitle Workshop allows text editing via search and relpace (Subtitle Creator only has search), but won't convert .srts to .sups. |
| JoeBolden posted 2009 Nov 06 10:17 |
| As I remember reading last year music notes (symbols) are a problem. You may have to use special ANSI font symbols. Many subtitle programs that work with srt use ANSI and not Unicode, UFT-8 but not sure.
Can someone provide more details of possible solutions? |
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