VLC instant freeze if subtitles are around...

[trillian59]

This bug is nagging me for a long time already, but I forgot to mention it before.

If you have a VCR recording (.TS) file AND a subtitle file (.SRT) in the same directory and fire up VLC with the TS file, it freezes instantly until the cows come home (or the task manager shoots him down). The gui window is open, but still blank, no mouse actions are accepted.

The only solution is to move out (or rename) the SRT file.

Why does VLC try to load the subtitles at all? a TS either contains subtitle or teletext stream itself, or there are no subs. Of course, the timing of the SRT can never match the internal timestamps of the TS, so even if they would belong to the same movie, they could never be shown.

(of course they belong to this movie, because they have just been extracted with some tools like project-x and wait until they are edited and finally muxed in again with handbrake or so. But its quite annoying always have to remember to move them out in between, or be reminded the hard way in case you want to take a sneak look at the ts (for instance to check the black bar cutting again to enter the values somewhere))

Is there a reason for this behaviour, or did somebody simply forget to turn it off for some filetypes?

(this post is in the windows section because I dont know if it applies to the unix version too. Admin, please move it if needed)

[VLC_help]

It applied to all the versions (and to current one). This issue is fixed in upcoming VLC 1.2.0

[eltouco]

Hi,

this bug is still current in 2.0.2 version.
For instance on Freebox, looking at a channel with teletext subtitle, the image instant freeze each time a subtitle is displayed.

Touco

[trillian59]

Yeah, still alive. It never has been fixed so far
And, its also quite annoying now because my current demux program automatically produces the subtitle files from the streams and if you want the check the result of the cutting, vlc hangs again. So killing the process... mumbling not nice words... renaming the subs... retrying....

[eltouco]

still current on VLC 2.0.5.
is there a bug ticket so we can follow it ?