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Posted: **10 Jul 2009 08:38**

Is it possible to play subtitles that are in SSA format with VLC? If so then how can I? I've tried loading them but they won't show up. If not then do you know of a media player that will? WMP doesn't seem to work with those subtitles either (not that I really expected it too)

Posted: **10 Jul 2009 08:51**

I forgot to add that I have VLC 1.0.0 and just finished downloading the latest update. The video file I'm trying to play with ssa subtitles is avi. When I try to show the subtitles nothing comes up.

Posted: **10 Jul 2009 12:07**

AVI isn't supposed to have ssa in it.
Can you share the file?

Posted: **20 Jul 2009 07:01**

Having the same problem... are you telling me they're incompatible with each other?

Anyway, looking around it seemed like a good diagnostic method was to load up the file and look at the messages with verbosity two. Did that and it gave me this:

main debug: control type=22
main debug: `C:\Documents and Settings\Steven\My Documents\Azureus Downloads\Sonic X Season 1 - Japanese\Sonic X - 05 - Clash Sonic Vs Knuckles.ssa' gives access `' demux `' path `C:\Documents and Settings\Steven\My Documents\Azureus Downloads\Sonic X Season 1 - Japanese\Sonic X - 05 - Clash Sonic Vs Knuckles.ssa'
main debug: creating demux: access='' demux='subtitle' path='C:\Documents and Settings\Steven\My Documents\Azureus Downloads\Sonic X Season 1 - Japanese\Sonic X - 05 - Clash Sonic Vs Knuckles.ssa'
main debug: looking for access_demux module: 3 candidates
main debug: TIMER module_need() : 2.000 ms - Total 2.000 ms / 1 intvls (Avg 2.000 ms)
main debug: creating access '' path='C:\Documents and Settings\Steven\My Documents\Azureus Downloads\Sonic X Season 1 - Japanese\Sonic X - 05 - Clash Sonic Vs Knuckles.ssa'
main debug: looking for access module: 5 candidates
vcd debug: trying .cue file: C:\Documents and Settings\Steven\My Documents\Azureus Downloads\Sonic X Season 1 - Japanese\Sonic X - 05 - Clash Sonic Vs Knuckles.cue
vcd debug: could not find .cue file
access_file debug: opening file `C:\Documents and Settings\Steven\My Documents\Azureus Downloads\Sonic X Season 1 - Japanese\Sonic X - 05 - Clash Sonic Vs Knuckles.ssa'
main debug: using access module "access_file"
main debug: TIMER module_need() : 3.000 ms - Total 3.000 ms / 1 intvls (Avg 3.000 ms)
main debug: Using AStream*Stream
main debug: pre buffering
main debug: received first data after 0 ms
main debug: pre-buffering done 1024 bytes in 0s - 1000000 kbytes/s
main debug: looking for stream_filter module: 2 candidates
main debug: TIMER module_need() : 0.000 ms - Total 0.000 ms / 1 intvls (Avg 0.000 ms)
main debug: looking for stream_filter module: 1 candidate
main debug: using stream_filter module "stream_filter_record"
main debug: TIMER module_need() : 1.000 ms - Total 1.000 ms / 1 intvls (Avg 1.000 ms)
main debug: creating demux: access='' demux='subtitle' path='C:\Documents and Settings\Steven\My Documents\Azureus Downloads\Sonic X Season 1 - Japanese\Sonic X - 05 - Clash Sonic Vs Knuckles.ssa'
main debug: looking for demux module: 3 candidates
vobsub debug: this doesn't seem to be a vobsub file
subtitle debug: Movie fps: 23.976000
subtitle debug: autodetecting subtitle format
subtitle debug: detected SSA-2/3/4 format
subtitle debug: loading all subtitles...
subtitle debug: loaded 231 subtitles
main debug: idx1=-1(??) idx2=-1(??)
main debug: using demux module "subtitle"
main debug: TIMER module_need() : 13.000 ms - Total 13.000 ms / 1 intvls (Avg 13.000 ms)
main debug: looking for decoder module: 35 candidates
main debug: using decoder module "libass"
main debug: TIMER module_need() : 1.000 ms - Total 1.000 ms / 1 intvls (Avg 1.000 ms)
main debug: thread (decoder) created at priority 0 (../.././src/input/decoder.c:315)
main debug: thread times: real 57m44.468750s, kernel 0m0.000000s, user 0m0.015625s
main debug: removing module "libass"
main debug: killing decoder fourcc `ssa ', 0 PES in FIFO
main debug: thread started
qt4 debug: Updating the geometry
qt4 debug: Updating the geometry
qt4 debug: Updating the geometry
qt4 debug: Small

But, uh, I have no idea what any of that means.

Oh, and the torrent for mine can be found here: http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4433374 ... subtitles)

EDIT: Converted it to SRT, didn't work that way either. Maybe there's an issue with my subtitle configuration?

EDIT2: Okay, never mind, turns out the subtitle file was coded wrong.

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