Posted by Netmask on 11/15/53 11:39

go to the forum there are some wise folk there. For my part with several
hundred transfers all with subtitles and using DVD shrink I haven't had any
problems of any type with AutoGK v2.20

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"Bob" <spam@uce.gov> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 06 Feb 2006 23:31:09 GMT, SportySpice
> <knicker21bocker@yahee.com> wrote:
>
>>In what format are your subtitles? Standalone file in either .srt or
>>.sup format, or embedded directly into the AVI? If directly embedded,
>>you might get better results after extracting them with something like
>>subripper, <http://www.divx-digest.com/software/subripper.html>. Worst
>>case, you might at least be able to better manage their timing by
>>using any text editor on the extracted subs.
>
> As I said, I started with a DVD title of one episode that is 45
> minutes in length. That means I imported into AutoGK from a DVD. I
> referenced the IFO file on the DVD for that particular title.
> Everything worked as advertised.
>
> Then I used DVD Shrink to cut down on the size of the title so I would
> not have to wait so long for test conversions. I clipped out 5 minutes
> and exported it in DVD format (VIDEO_TS, IFO, VOB, etc.) onto my hard
> disk. I played it in WinDVD and WMP and the subtitles were present.
>
> Then I converted this DVD format with AGK, again referencing the IFO.
> AGK recognized the subtitle and placed it on the Subtitle dialog,
> which I selected. Later AGK acknowledged that it had processed the
> subtitle in the Log. Yet when I played the resulting AVI, there was no
> subtitle.
>
> I then made a much larger clip and discovered that the missing
> subtitle was present but way out of sync. The first part of the
> subtitle was a long time later in the AVI. This means there is a
> subtitle sync problem with AGK.
>
>>[snip]
>>>And the worst part is that the author has threatened to make this his
>>>last version, which means there are serious bugs remaining.
>
>>Or it could mean the author thinks there are no serious bugs
>>remaining? :)
>
> There is a subtitle sync problem which I can prove exists.
>
> There may be some kind of subtle incompatibility with clips made from
> DVD Shrink - a misreferenced pointer perhaps. But how can that be the
> case when WinDVD and WMP both played the subtitle properly from the
> IFO/VOB?
>
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>
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> I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first."
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