Subtitle Workshop crashes upon loading subs

[mystic818]

Subtitle Workshop is crashing every time after I load a subtitle file (tried both .srt file and .ssa file). This seemed to start occurring after I upgraded to nero7.

After researching for quite a bit, I found out that this may be a problem with vobsub? Someone suggested disabling vobsub, and that seemed to stop the subtitle workshop crashes. HOWEVER, I had to use the internal subtitle viewer in SW and I couldn't get subtitles to display anymore with media player classic (since vobsub is disabled).

Is there any way to get BOTH SW not to crash AND enabling vobsub so that I can see the subs with using MPC?? This setup worked perfectly fine before the installation of nero7...

Thanks in advance to those kind enough to help!!

[Baldrick]

What version of vobsub? Maybe try upgrade to latest vsfilter instead?

[mystic818]

Baldrick - thanks for replying! I finally was able to solve this issue... I ended up reinstalling vobsub (which was the most recent version) as well as vsfilter (which had a newer version). Now it looks like everything is working the way it was prior to the nero installation. Thanks again!

[AlanHK]

I had a similar problem.

It seems some automatic subtitle viewer was displaying the subtitles of a movie when I opened the corresponding AVI file (eg, "video.avi" and subs in "video.srt").
Mostly this is fine, but Subtitle Workshop would get screwed up because it was also trying to display the subtitles.

I found I could prevent the autoloading by renaming the subtitle file.
Renaming the subs (eg, to "video_.srt") stopped the autoload.
When using Subtitle Workshop, you now have to select the SRT and video files explicitly.

When you're done editing subs, you can change the name of the SRT back if you want.

[XXIX]

I sew this movie few hours ago, and I said to myself I must show this to my little sisters. So I decided to tittle it on my language. I asked a computer-wizz what should I use for such a job and he said Subtitle Workshop.

Now. My prob is same as yours. But. I cant make out what are u guys talking about? If u cant translate how to fix a prob on dummy's language I would appreciate it.

If this means anything, I'm using Windows Media Player Classic with output set on: VMR9 ( renderless )** (so I can use tittles in Windows Media Player Classic), and Nero 8. k-lite codeck pack is 445. Thanx in advance

[AlanHK]

I sew this movie few hours ago, and I said to myself I must show this to my little sisters. So I decided to tittle it on my language. I asked a computer-wizz what should I use for such a job and he said Subtitle Workshop.

Now. My prob is same as yours. But. I cant make out what are u guys talking about? If u cant translate how to fix a prob on dummy's language I would appreciate it.

I said:

Renaming the subs (eg, to "video_.srt") stopped the autoload.
When using Subtitle Workshop, you now have to select the SRT and video files explicitly.

Then
1) open the SRT file. It should NOT automatically load a video, as it has a different name.
2) open the video ("Movie/open"). You should only see one set of subtitles.
3) edit your subs
4) exit Subtitle Workshop
5) rename the SRT to its original name
Now opening the video in your player should find and display the SRT.

[hadiceberg]

I was using Cole2k codec pack and everything was fine. but after uninstalling it and installing latest k-lite codec pack (klcodec462f) this problem started occurring.
I just disabled ffdshow and the problem is gone! Vobsub is present and causing no problems.

[XXIX]

ok. tnx guys.

[erisdiscordia]

1) open the SRT file. It should NOT automatically load a video, as it has a different name.
2) open the video ("Movie/open"). You should only see one set of subtitles.
3) edit your subs
4) exit Subtitle Workshop
5) rename the SRT to its original name
Now opening the video in your player should find and display the SRT.

I can confirm that AlanHK's steps worked to solve my "crash on opening film or subtitles" problem with the combo Subtitle Workshop / WinXP / ffdshow.

[tinuska]

Thank you so much for this thread, solved all my recent troubles