[mythtv-users] "phantom" subtitles on DVD

Ian Evans dheianevans at gmail.com
Mon Nov 24 04:37:26 UTC 2014


On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 10:13 PM, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hoi Ian,
>
> Monday, November 24, 2014, 2:58:24 AM, you wrote:
>
>
>
> > On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 3:32 AM, Ian Evans <dheianevans at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 3:29 AM, Ian Evans <dheianevans at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 9:28 PM, Ian Evans <dheianevans at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 9:26 AM, Jim Stichnoth <stichnot at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 7:30 PM, Ian Evans <dheianevans at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 9:51 PM, Doug Lytle <support at drdos.info> wrote:
> >
> > Ian Evans wrote:
>  >> Any tweaks I should be looking at?
> >
> >
> > I've seen it happen many times.  I use SubtitleEditor to correct the
> >  timings.
> >
> > Thanks, Doug, I'll take a look at that. Just strange that they
> > don't even appear for the first 10 mins or so. If I look at the srt
> > file in mousepad, all the dialogue is there.
> >
> > I have a number of DVDs that claim to have closed captions, but
> > whose display in MythTV is sporadic at best.  From what you're
> > describing (all caption text seems to be intact in the .srt file),
> > it sounds like the timecodes might be messed up in the original DVD
> > MPEG source.  Do the timecodes in your .srt file look reasonable?
> > I.e. the duration of each subtitle, and the end time of one subtitle
> > compared to the start time of the next subtitle.
> >
> > BTW, the closed captions are encoded as special packets in the MPEG
> > file.  It is up to the player to render them onto the video image
> > and/or insert them into the analog VBI output signal.  Only the
> > former is possible when using component or HDMI output.  MythTV has
> > never done the latter, though commercial DVD players probably do.
> >
> > Sorry...been a long while since I played with this.
> > Anyhoo...was able to grab an srt file for the video. Watching in
> > myth it was terribly often off, e.g. person left the room and then
> > their dialogue would appear. I downloaded the Windows version of
> > Subtitle Edit and when I open the files on my desktop the audio and
> > subtitles were perfectly synced. I had done nothing. Why would they be
> off in Myth?
> > Just curious if SE does some autofixing when it loads. Don't have
> > access to the mythbox right now as the missus is asleep. Should I
> > resave the .srt file and check the myth in the morning?
> > Just checked. The captions are still out of sync, off by five
> > seconds, sometimes ten or more despite the fact that they're perfect in
> Windoze.
> > I'm wondering if this is a skipping issue I saw in some threads.
> > The film opens with a few minutes of silent action so I always skip to
> where the dialogue starts.
> > Further info:
> > .mkv video
> > external .srt file
> > i.e. the file browser has title.mkv and title.srt
> > Thanks
> >
> > Also...forgot, running latest .27 fixes
> > Update...merged the SRT file into the mkv and suddenly the subtitles
> were in sync.
>
> Great how simple reflection helps.
> Please add it to the Wiki
>
>
Which page in the wiki? And any idea why it failed outside the mkv and
worked inside?
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