MicroDVD subtitle files and style formatting

[Wolfie]

Hello!

How can I set up VLC Media Player to show subtitles properly (for example, if the subtitle file contains tags to make the text italic they are shown in italic in VLC)?
At the moment subtitles are shown with the style formatting tags, no actual style formatting is done...
Oh and I'm using VLC MP 0.8.6c

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Can you provide samples please ? Those issues are being addressed in development versions now.

[Wolfie]

Ok, for some reason I couldn't get a proper screen capture of the VLC playing the video with subtitles, but here's what I mean...

This is what the subtitle file looks like:



Basically the line that is blue in the picture VLC shows like this:
{Y:i}- Haloo?
- Clark, tiedän kuka olet.

instead of like this:

- Haloo?
- Clark, tiedän kuka olet.

Did that clear anything?
Atleast Subtitle Workshop shows that line as it should be, in Italic.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Do you have the actual file please.

[Wolfie]

You mean the subtitle file?
Yes. To which email address shall I send it?

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Yes, the subtitle file... and the movie if you can. Send link in PM.

[VLC_help]

There isn't official formatting support in .sub format. If you want proper formatting then use SSA/A SS.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Yes, but we could do a few easy things to fix it.

[waste]

I found this old thread (this is wrong forum anyway, because this is not Windows realted) and I just wanted to know... is it fixed already? I know there is no .sub specification around but we all use some common option in .sub files and most of players on the market render it correctly. I mean about {y:b}, {y:i}, {y:u} at least - these are most used.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

I didn't look at it.

[waste]

Is it any option that such an sub formating will be rendered in future? There is really huge number of subtitles with it (eg. od OpenSubtitles website, ppl are uploading .sub files with bold, italic lines).

[VLC_help]

{Y:i}- Haloo? to Haloo? is easy to fix, but I am not sure how well the current VLC supports formatting with basic text subtitle formats.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Well, it is not that easy to fix, but I will look at it in 0.9.1 if there is a ticket.

[waste]

Thank you for that. I am looking forward to see it.

[VLC_help]

http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/1825
trac ticket with examples.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

{y:i} {y:b} and {y:u} and implemented.
They will do the same as {Y:.} though.

[waste]

Many thanks!

[dl2rcf]

Hello,

I am new here and fought the whole day with Subtitles in VideoLAN, which could be a very nice feature!

I tested several formats, but it seems, that only SSA is supported with all its "spec".
I want to use subtitles for video time insertion of a time signal (such as IRIG-B or DCF77).
The problem with SSA (no matter if I import my time-code files to VideoLAN by just loading them or hardinsert them with VirtualDub's SSA filter) is that I get collisions. SSA is too slow to overlay a new "subtitle" for each frame (every 40 ms).

I fumbled around and tested the MicroDVD subtitles which superimpose very fast. But since VideoLAN doesn't (yet) read the format codes, its BULKY on screen in comparison with the decent, colorful SSA insertions.

Is there any format for subtitles that:
- are as fast as MicroDVD's SUB format (a sub title EVERY frame possible)
- have formatting features (FONT SIZE!!)

Any suggestions?

Damn, there is a lot of badly documented subtitle-file-formats out there!!!


Greetings and thanks, Ruben

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

SRT Html subs!

[dl2rcf]

SRT Html subs!

This works awesome!! at full 25 Hz!!! Thank You ((( I hope I wont sound like a nagger: but when You pause the video, sometimes the subtitle stays overlayed (nice!!!) but other times it disappears )))
Is there a more or less "complete" spec on SRT?

Thanks, too, for the "dots instead of commas in timestamps" support

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

There is no complete spec. Like SSA. But you can guess the most usefull ones.