Subtitle playback issue in Snow Leopard

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Re: Subtitle playback issue in Snow Leopard

Postby raziel2001au » 02 Sep 2009 13:04

Awesome, that fix worked... well, I did it slightly differently, I used:
sudo chmod a+w /usr/X11/var/cache/fontconfig

The first time I loaded an MKV after that it took 1 minute to load, but generated the cache info it needs to go back to loading files with subtitles at normal speed. I hope you guys will do a proper fix for the next release, but at least it all works with this little workaround.

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Re: Subtitle playback issue in Snow Leopard

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 02 Sep 2009 18:31

I believe this is the correct fix.
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Re: Subtitle playback issue in Snow Leopard

Postby raziel2001au » 03 Sep 2009 07:22

I believe this is the correct fix.
Well, if you guys intend to keep it as a manual process, at least ship these instructions with the next release somehow... Like, prompt the user in-program if he tries to open something with subtitles if the permissions on that folder is not set correctly.

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Re: Subtitle playback issue in Snow Leopard

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 03 Sep 2009 13:20

Well, we will see if we can patch fontconfig like on Windows.
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Re: Subtitle playback issue in Snow Leopard

Postby raziel2001au » 03 Sep 2009 14:08

Well, we will see if we can patch fontconfig like on Windows.
Good luck with that. Thanks for the help :).
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Re: Subtitle playback issue in Snow Leopard

Postby SnidelyW » 20 Apr 2010 20:41

Has this issue ever been corrected? I am currently using 1.0.5 with Snow Leopard 10.6.3 v1.1.

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Re: Subtitle playback issue in Snow Leopard

Postby generalkhaos » 07 Jul 2010 04:40

I found a fix for this on another forum while to learn why my evangelion embedded subs don't load < which i still have not figured out> BUT i am incredibly grateful for whoever came up with this genius fix cuz MAN does it take a long to load anime

apparently the problem has to do with X11 for some ungodly reason. open up a terminal and run this command and problem solved.


sudo chmod a+w /usr/X11/var/cache/fontconfig

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Re: Subtitle playback issue in Snow Leopard

Postby Jabrwock » 14 Jul 2010 03:41

The issue is still present in 1.1.0, SL 10.6.4

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Re: Subtitle playback issue in Snow Leopard

Postby waverwave » 17 Jul 2010 20:05

*bump*
subtitles are filling the screen nicely to the top until i can not see anything. they wont dissapear..

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Re: Subtitle playback issue in Snow Leopard

Postby zouche » 20 Oct 2010 10:19

Sorry to bump an old post but a strange thing has happened:

I used this fix a couple of months ago to get MKVs to load instantly and it was a 100% success.

Then last week I reinstalled Snow Leopard and the latest version of VLC but now when i try to use the command 'sudo chmod a+w /usr/X11/var/cache/fontconfig' i get the error 'No such file or directory'. In fact neither the 'cache' nor 'var' folders seem to exist and the only folder inside 'X11' is one called 'share'.

Does anyone have any ideas about this?

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Re: Subtitle playback issue in Snow Leopard

Postby mifortin » 17 Dec 2010 14:57

Sorry for reviving an old post, however since the issue still persists without changing permissions of X11's fontconfig folder; Apple's X11 seems to put its fontconfig files in ~/.fontconfig -- putting the cache files there by default might be a better long-term solution?


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