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Hi all,

The current support for synchronizing out-of-sync subtitles when the movie is being played is, to give a positive or negative subtitle delay in multiples of 50ms. This will be a really painful exercise, if the subtitle is, say, slower by say 25 seconds.

So, if VLC can provide an option to Go to the next/previous entry, and calculate the required delay by itself, then it will be really easy to use out-of sync subtitles. I think, MPlayer has such an option, but I'm not sure. I feel that this method is more user-friendly than the giving the subtitle time delay.

Also, on going to the next/previous subtitle entry, if it can show the calculated delay [ just like it shows on adding 50ms subtitle delay], then one can use a subtitle editor to fix the subtitle easily.

Just a remark: the hotkey was intended for small adjustments (like when the subtitles file is shifting a little regularly). If you need to add a 25s delay, you can specify it in the "Open" dialog.

However, I agree it's not very convenient, it can be very interesting to have a "go to next subtitle" option instead (or in addition).

I do a lot of synchronizing of subtitles. It'll really help if VLC provides this option. I want to do this in VLC, and do not want to goto some other media player. The option of going to the next subtitle entry is, in my opinion, a very intuitive technique while synchronizing subtitles.

I will keep my fingers crossed and hope that this feature gets into VLC soon.

Thanks,

You should create a Trac ticket, so that it doesn't get forgotten.