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It has been a while since I've checked here. Does anybody know if the issue of the overlapping subtitles in the exampled MKV issue above was ever looked at or addressed?

SSA subtitles are not correctly showed in VLC. There is a project to support them in a better way this summer. From what he was saying, it appears as though the SSA subtitles found in MKV file formats are not yet wholly supported by VLC. So it's a combination of MKV and VLC that's causing all of th...

Aaaah! An answer! Very much appreciated! I'll definately be looking forward to that when it comes. Thank you so very much for your time and your attention towards this matter.

Ah. I found the field mentioned. I passed it over because it was blank and had no options or drop down box to select from. I gave "en" a try in the Subtitle language box to indicate english, but there was no change. This is what the overlapping looks like in VLC http://www.geocities.com/ke...

The overlapping occurs not because one line of text is being held longer than the other. The overlapping is occuring because it is a moment where two characters are talking at the same time, one of which is speaking a normal line, and the other is making a comment. So the line and comment overlap on...

Apparently this has been an ongoing issue for several years now, and every overlapping post I've read either doesn't provide a solution, or explains that it's a known problem that will take some time to work on. Even when downloading the latest VLC media player (0.8.6b), subtitle overlapping still o...