Follow up on the subtitle (to Felix Kühne )

JCR · Postby **JCR** » 18 Sep 2005 20:00

Felix, thanks much for you reply, but I couldn't find the menu you were talking about.

I am using the MAC OS version and this option you referred to does not show up niether in the Video menu nor at the Video option under the preferrences menu.

Is there still such option for MAC ? It's not that it's greyed, it's just not there...

thanks,
JCR

Postby **fkuehne** » 18 Sep 2005 23:00

Of course it is (just checked that for you while writing by first response). Did you click on the triangle next to "Video" inside the preferences? It will expand you a lot more categories and you need to go down to the one I wrote you.

Make sure that you are using VLC 0.8.2. Otherwise, the setting isn't there, but in another category.

BTW. Please don't create new threads for responses, but just answer in the original one. Thanks. We will answer you there.

JCR · Postby **JCR** » 19 Sep 2005 00:13

Thanks Felix. Indeed it's there. I didn't know the triangle trick...

I am now able to select a font, but none of them displays the subtitles properly. I am trying to see a Hebrew font.

They are installed (other programs on the mac use it already) but i just see jibrish.

any idea?
tnx,
J.

Postby **fkuehne** » 19 Sep 2005 19:33

Could you upload a sample of your subtitles file somewhere? (or if you don't have own webspace, upload it to ftp://altair.videolan.org/incoming/ and give the name of the file here.)

JCS · Postby **JCS** » 19 Sep 2005 20:07

Felix,

I can access the FTP site, but it doesn't let me upload anything (write permission).

I can email it to you if possible.

JCS.

Postby **fkuehne** » 19 Sep 2005 21:41

Please mail it to fkuehne {dot} videolan {at} googlemail {dot} com

JCS · Postby **JCS** » 20 Sep 2005 09:38

Hi Felix,

I changed the file to another font and now I get the following error:

main: no suitable demux module for `/subtitle:/Desktop/My Documents/Movies/movie.srt'

idea ?

JCS

Postby **fkuehne** » 20 Sep 2005 18:18

I have received your mail and will have a look at the file later today (in 2-3 hours).

Postby **fkuehne** » 20 Sep 2005 22:28

Okay, I cannot get this file to play here as well, but that's probably my fault (or more precisely the kind of files I use or due to the fact that I don't have a Hebrew-font installed). I converted it to UTF-8 (from Hebrew [DOS]) though and mailed you back. Could you check whether it works for you now?

JCS · Postby **JCS** » 21 Sep 2005 00:14

Unfortunately it doesn't, but I have other applications that can view/write Hebrew...so it's not a font issue on my machine.

I see jibrish and also get this error:

subtitle: failed to recognize subtitle type
main: no suitable demux module for `/subtitle://Desktop/My Documents/Movies/subs.srt'

are we out of ideas?

The DJ · Postby **The DJ** » 21 Sep 2005 17:15

FK default OSX font DOES support Hebrew.
If it doesn't recognize the file, then either the file does something which is unusual/unsupported, or it is UTF-16

Postby **fkuehne** » 21 Sep 2005 19:56

FK default OSX font DOES support Hebrew.
If it doesn't recognize the file, then either the file does something which is unusual/unsupported, or it is UTF-16

Okay, but converting it to UTF-8 should work, shouldn't it? It doesn't show anything to me. Would you like to have a look at the file?

JCS · Postby **JCS** » 23 Sep 2005 05:37

FK default ?

so which font should I select ? I couldn't find anything similar to FK in my font list.

Chen

Postby **fkuehne** » 25 Sep 2005 19:20

"FK" is my IRC (chat) nickname, so there isn't a font, you can find with that name

There is a colon missing in DJ's posting.

He said that the default font we use under OSX supports Hebrew (which was new to me btw.), so it should display your subs correctly. Could you open them in the subtitles-section in File -> Open File, select "CP1254" or "ISO-8859-8" as encoding and try again? (use your original file for that, not my modified one)

If that doesn't work, I'll file that case to our todo-list, since your file isn't UTF-16 encoded.

JCR · Postby **JCR** » 27 Sep 2005 12:48

Hi Felix,

when loading the subtitles manually selecting the encode, IT WORKED !!!!

Now I am left with a "minor"issue:

If there are two lines of subs on the screen, it shows them from bottom to top, so the lower line is the one I should read first then the top one is second.

Is there anything to do with this to switch them ?

tnx,
JCR

Postby **fkuehne** » 27 Sep 2005 17:39

Sorry, no idea on that... Perhaps someone else does?

BTW. Perhaps that was fixed already. Could you download the current beta version (see general VLC forum) and try that one?

JCR · Postby **JCR** » 27 Sep 2005 22:22

thanks Felix. you have helped me a lot !!!!

Postby **fkuehne** » 28 Sep 2005 11:13

No problem

You are welcome.

kemro · Postby **kemro** » 27 Nov 2005 11:46

Hi !

I tried load auto, manually, manually with encodingand always have the same :

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main debug: using demux2 module "avi"
main debug: forced subtitle: /mnt/media/Smallville [5x07] Splinter.txt
main debug: `/mnt/media/Smallville [5x07] Splinter.txt' gives access `' demux `' path `/mnt/media/Smallville [5x07] Splinter.txt'
main debug: creating access '' path='/mnt/media/Smallville [5x07] Splinter.txt'
main debug: looking for access2 module: 5 candidates
vcd debug: trying .cue file: /mnt/media/Smallville [5x07] Splinter.cue
access_file debug: opening file `/mnt/media/Smallville [5x07] Splinter.txt'
main debug: using access2 module "access_file"
main debug: pre buffering
main debug: received first data for our buffer
main debug: creating demux: access='' demux='subtitle' path='/mnt/media/Smallville [5x07] Splinter.txt'
main debug: looking for demux2 module: 2 candidates
vobsub debug: this doesn't seem to be a vobsub file
subtitle debug: autodetecting subtitle format
subtitle [b] error: failed to recognize subtitle type
main warning: no demux2 module matching "subtitle" could be loaded
main error: no suitable demux module for `/subtitle:///mnt/media/Smallville [5x07] Splinter.txt' [/b]

And what's about "vobsub debug: this doesn't seem to be a vobsub file"

Can VLC read only vobsub subtitles ?!

Postby **fkuehne** » 27 Nov 2005 15:47

No, there is the vobsub-module and the subtitles-module. As you can see by "subtitle error: failed to recognize subtitle type", none of these 2 can recognise your file.
Please provide the first few lines of your file. If it is plain text, it is probably rather easy to support and might therefore attract a team member to work on it.

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