Weird subtitle problem.

[sooojaded]

I'm using VLC media player 0.8.6i. I have a movie in .vob format and a subtitle file in .srt format. When i play the movie this is what happens.

1
time ---> time
aaa (This subtitle does not appear in the movie)

2
time ---> time
bbb (This subtitle does not appear in the movie)

3
time ---> time
ccc (This subtitle appears in the movie)

Basically what I'm trying to say is that some subtitles appear but some don't appear.

I posted this problem in videohelp forum and they suggested that i downloaded the nightly builds of VLC (VLC media player 0.9.0). I downloaded it, the problem does not change. But this version has an option to load subtitles. I loaded the same srt file and the problem is fixed (ALL subtitles appear when they should)

I also tried playing the movie with another player and the subtitles work fine. I concluded that the problem lies in the VLC media player itself.

But I do love VLC because it worked for me many times until now. I don't wish to switch to another player because VLC is compatible with most kinds of media. Call me lazy, but, is there a way to fix this so that I don't have to load subtitles every time I play any .vob file?

By the way, I am using Windows Vista, and I heard that VLC is not fully compatible with Windows Vista. Could it be the source of the problem?

[VLC_help]

Someone reported something similar earlier.
viewtopic.php?f=14&t=47638&p=151614&hil ... le#p151614

If you open Tools -> Messages.. and set Verbosity to 2 before playback (nightlies), you get same log with both subtitle open styles?

[sooojaded]

Under Tools --> messages. I saw this message before setting the Verbosity to 2:
main info: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
main error: option sub-original-fps does not exist
a52 info: A/52 channels:1 samplerate:48000 bitrate:192000
main error: subpicture heap is full
main error: subpicture heap is full
main error: subpicture heap is full
main error: subpicture heap is full
main error: subpicture heap is full
main error: subpicture heap is full
main error: subpicture heap is full

I got different logs. When I set the Verbosity to 2, the log is full of messages which are too long to place here.
What does this mean?

[VLC_help]

You can use code tags to paste long logs or paste
http://paste.videolan.org/

main error: subpicture heap is full seems to indicate that there is a bug.

In my test it seems that 2 first subtitles don't appear and last one is also missing.

http://www.raiska.com/vlc/video.vob
http://www.raiska.com/vlc/video.srt

[sooojaded]

Hi, I reported the bug in paste.videolan.org (twice, not sure how to delete).
I'd also like to highlight that after I load the subtitles, the pause button changes to play button even though I did not press the pause/play button and I cannot pause the movie after that. That would be another bug in 0.9.0 as well?
Another bug I'd like to point out is that if I try to seek different parts of the video, sometimes the subtitles will play as though they started from the beginning without skipping or seeking.

[VLC_help]

Paste is only for pastes. For bug reporting, use trac.
https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/

[simon_newbie]

Hello I used the new version 0.8.6i to play a .ts file. The subtitle only flashed for less than a second and gone. I tried to set frames to 10 seconds under open file > use subtitles file > advanced settings but that did not change anything. Is there anything I can do to make the subtitle showing smoothly? My OS is Windows Vista Home Premium. Please advise. Thanks.

[VLC_help]

simon_newbie: please, don't multipost.