closed captions and the srt viewer

[pastro]

I starting to work on a program to fix the rollup problem on closed captions but there appears to be an issue with the way GB-PVR display captions.
I might have something setup wrong but there are only two lines of captions displayed. The caption file has three. Not only that, the new text sometimes comes in on the topline of the two and the bottom line is still the old text. That doesn't make sense to me. Does GB-PVR only support two lines of captions? What happens if there are three?
Any help appreciated.

[pastro]

Captions don't look right when they scroll on the screen as opposed to having the entire two lines at one time. I'll try to explain what is going on.

Here are two lines of an srt file

1
00:00:01,066 --> 00:00:10,100
FIRST LINE
SECOND LINE
THIRD LINE

2
00:00:10,100 --> 00:00:30,100
FIRST LINE
SECOND LINE



On the tv screen it shows up as
THIRD LINE
SECOND LINE

and then 10 seconds later

FIRST LINE
SECOND LINE

Notice that the newest text is on top in the first case, and it is on the bottom in the second case. This makes reading the text next to impossible as it scrolls in on the top if there are three lines and on the bottom when there are only two. ( It should never be the top no matter what).

It seems that GB-PVR only supports two lines of text and when a third line is read it overwrites the first line, Is that true, or is there a setting somewhere to adjust this? There's an easy fix if I need to implement it which is to postprocess the srt file to 2 lines max, but that won't look quite as good.

[sub]

It was a bug. The next release will allow for three lines in an SRT file. This isnt very common, most files have a maximum of two lines - so no one has ever noticed.

[pastro]

It was a bug. The next release will allow for three lines in an SRT file. This isnt very common, most files have a maximum of two lines - so no one has ever noticed.

Dvasco sent a file to me to illustrate the rollup problem that had three lines. I don't think the rollup is going to be an issue once the three lines are displayed and people use left justification. If the rollup still causes issues after the new release I'll work on a postprocessor. For now I'm just going to write a quick processor to limit the text to the newest two lines.
Thanks.

[pastro]

I wrote a quick program to post process the srt output file. It uses the two newest captions lines if three lines are present. If there are one or two lines it leaves it alone and outputs it as is. This makes it much more readable for the three line cases until the next release comes out.
I have a couple more minutes of work to do on it to check for a missing file and to allow the input name to be .mpg instead of .srt (so you can call it easier).
If anyone is interested, I'll post it.