SRT Config

[dvasco]

And although I swear I'm the only one with the problem, I see the captions slip in time with the source the further in I go in playback, but no one else seems to report this. There is a fix if someone else sees this.

I have a timing problem period. I tried playing with it the last time we had two threads going on srt subs from CC, but my biggest problem at that time was the roll-up. Now, I just live with the timing problem.

[pastro]

What's your timing problem? Do the captions slide with respect to the source with time?

[dvasco]

What's your timing problem? Do the captions slide with respect to the source with time?

They may, but they are off from the beginning anyway. I first noticed your slipping problem when someone posted that problem in the ReplayTv AVSforum. I never found a solution and those that did found their solution for a portable player and a DVD player, then they never posted back in the thread. I just tried looking for the thread and it is missing. It might be on an archived server. No time to look for it now though.

[dvasco]

Ok, had a break and found it the timing trouble thread at http://archive2.avsforum.com/avs-vb/show...p?t=757574 but it's really no help other than about when I first noticed the problem. At that time I had tried changing the time in VOBsub for the srt subs on the video server but the slipping still appeared so I gave up. I tried again in one of our last threads and gave up again.

[pastro]

Ok, had a break and found it the timing trouble thread at http://archive2.avsforum.com/avs-vb/show...p?t=757574 but it's really no help other than about when I first noticed the problem. At that time I had tried changing the time in VOBsub for the srt subs on the video server but the slipping still appeared so I gave up. I tried again in one of our last threads and gave up again.

I wrote a program to postprocess the output of srt2mpg that fixes the slip on mine by adjusting the caption timing.
I posted it at one point but no one seemed to have this issue but me.
The initial slip timing is adjusted in config, although I could easily build it into my program as well.

[sub]

I'm guessing your problem is caused by srt2mpg not generating the correct timing info on the SRT file it produces.

[pastro]

I'm guessing your problem is caused by srt2mpg not generating the correct timing info on the SRT file it produces.

I checked with the author and he claimed he takes them directly out of the timestamps in the file. That said maybe the timestamps have to be divided by 29.97 or 30 to get the exact time and that isn't being done right. He claimed it is in the playback because players run at 30hz and disregard the 29.97 timing.
At any rate, my retimer does the trick.

[dslowik]

I checked with the author and he claimed he takes them directly out of the timestamps in the file. That said maybe the timestamps have to be divided by 29.97 or 30 to get the exact time and that isn't being done right. He claimed it is in the playback because players run at 30hz and disregard the 29.97 timing.
At any rate, my retimer does the trick.

I finally got to try an hour long show and as you said the captions were off by a few seconds after an hour. What kind of fix is it that you have?

[dvasco]

Pastro, I don't ever remember you mentioning a timing fix before.

[pbb]

dvasco, on your post on how to fix the rollup problem - on number 3 - are you saying to replace the "align=Center" attribute in each of the tags listed with "align=Left"?