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Hi! I have VLC 0.84 and I want to set subtitles to disapear after for exmpel 4 sec. Now they are showned untli next subtitle is displeyed- it's quite amusing becouse you still focus on this stupid subtitle that you have read already. Thx for your help.

For which subtitle format ?

Because normally this shouldn't occur.

For .txt format. They are coded by time not by frames.

Example?

There are like 4 subtitle formats that use the .txt extention.

But what do you mean exactly? I have subtitles downloaded from http://www.napisy.org. As far as I'm concernd non of the .txt subtitles don't disapear.

I mean that they don't disapear. What I have to check to give you what kind of format it is??

Ok.The problem is only with subs that have starting time in secunds only. They have no disapearing time writen in txt file so they still being displayed untill next sub displey. Have VlC have any option like "Subtitles disaper after ... sec"??? Or maybe some one now how to convert subs in such format to subs in this format "{47}{84}" 47 is start time and 84 for is in this exemple an ending time.

Could you just paste the first part of your problematic subtitle ????
That would be so much easier.

Seen the same thing on OSX 10.34 and WinXPSP1:
I make mp4's using h.264, so I mux SubRip srt files into it.

They play fine in Media Player Classic. In VLC the subtitles barely work.
Most of the time they start at the correct time, but then stay on screen until the next one is called up. Moreover, some titles never pop up at all. And I had to change the Subtitle text coding to ASCII to make them read properly (German characters involved).
This does not occur when I load the srt as a separate file.

And then, I cain't manage to change the font at video/subtitles/Textrenderer
I have pointed to like every single font I have installed in c:\windows/fonts, and no damn thing happens at all.

You know, when some one really has a thing with subtitles and runs into problems with VLC, it's not funny at all having to look into so many different places in the settings maze to find out what the problem might be.
There's the paths

video/subtitles/Textrenderer
Input Codecs/Demuxers/Subtitles
Other Codecs/Subtitles

and where the heck else where the problem actually may stick around just now!

Anyhowl, it'd be soo cool if there were a solution to the never ending display of once called up subs.

Have a good time all,

init

in .mp4 you use Timed Text, and in timed text subtitles are required to have both a start and a stop time. Your input doesn't have a stop time for the subtitles and therefore incorrect .mp4 files are created. I'm aware that there are applications allowing you to both read and create these .mp4 files, however they should not be allowing this.

Subs without "stop" times for display are truly dense and should be banished from the face of the earth. you should avoid them like the plague.

There are even some cases where these programs are instead of giving the subtitle the right stoptime, creating "empty" subtitles at the stop time, to force the original true subtitle off the screen. This is even more stupid, since it poses a gigantic overhead when creating the file, and won't allow for proper extraction of the subtitles from the .mp4

I don't understand why you say my input didn't provide end times for the titles. As I stated in my post, I am using Subrip .srt, where it looks like this:

00:00:26,375 --> 00:00:30,163
Es war wunderbar ausgedacht
und brillant geschrieben.

My muxer offers srt and GPAC TTXT and I am using the srt straight with no conversion.

Greetinx

init

one more thing:

when I select character set ISO-8559-1 (Latin) I still don't get ä, ö, ü, ß and the likes.
(latest nightly build on xpsp1)

init

So to sum up-do we have any posibielity to play or convert subs like this: "00:01:09:Co podać?
00:01:10:Piwo.
00:01:12:Jest Chango,|ale ciepłe jak szczyny.
00:01:15:Moje ulubione.
00:01:35:Co za smak!
00:01:39:Najlepszy browar,|jaki w życiu piłem."
Without stop time to be played properly in VLC?? Ithink this subs are in Tmplayer format. Can I do something with that??

what a lively forum - sux ass

I have the same problem in two MP4 files, one with DIVX video and other with H.264. With VOBSUB subtitles this don't happen.
I used MP4BOX to extract the subtitles track in SRT and TTEXT types and saw that in SRT the ending times are present but in TTEXT they are implemented as tags with an empty text chain (""), so when they are shown on the screen the last subtitle should disapear. I think that for some reason VideoLan player doesn't render this empty chains, because in MPlayer Clasic y don't have this problem.
I have put a blank space in this empty chains and it works fine now but i hope this issue will be solve in a next version of the VideoLan Player.