SubResync won't load .sub files

[martinlest]

Hi (again!). I seem to have endless bad luck with subtitles on videos I am authoring with AVStoDVD.

I have a set of subtitles in idx/sub format, but I guess there must be something wrong with the files. AVStoDVD gets as far as starting to process the subtitles, but immediately closes with the error message "PROCESS ABORTED DURING TITLE 1 SUBS (TRACK 1) ENCODING". When I choose to open the sub files with SubResync, nothing happens - no information loads at all. (I have tried with other sub files I have and they load OK, so it's not the programme that has a problem).

Any ideas how to ? I attach the first sub file (the idx file is not a valid file to upload, apparently).

Thanks,

Martin

[jman98]

Maybe the patch here can fix your problem.
https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/300600-SubReSync-problem

I recently had SubResynch refuse to open a SUB file and I gave up and used another program to do it, but I don't remember which program I used. Sorry. I did not know about the patch.

[martinlest]

Ha, funny, I found that patch only this morning. Before I applied it, SubResync wouldn't open at all. Overwriting the exe files with those from the patch cured the problem - the programme now opens just fine.

The problem is that when I choose to open these particular .sub files from the GUI, nothing happens. That's what I meant, but thanks for the reply anyway,

Martin

[manono]

A SUB is pretty useless without its IDX. RAR or ZIP them and then upload.

[martinlest]

OK

[videobruger]

Opened it with SubtitleEdit

Selected English and made OCR in 3 mins. Had "Promt for unknow words" switch off so probably a couple of "errors". Exported as idx/sub with no problems

[martinlest]

OK, will try with that and report back. Thanks.

[martinlest]

I have several programmes designed to transcribe/edit subtitles, but I had never installed this one before. It looks pretty much a 'must have'; the OCR is amazingly fast (once I had located a German tesseract file and installed it!) and seems very accurate. I now have an srt file and can take it from here I think!

One other question (not sure it's worth starting a new thread?). Last time I added German subtitles (srt file) to a video in AVStoDVD, all the umlauts came out on the TV as question marks; they are fine in the srt file. I redid the video, changing all the problem 'umlauted' letters to ae, oe, or ue. But I read (one of Mr.C's posts from 2009!) that I should be able to get AVStoDVD to use the vowels with umlauts.

Same with a superscripted circle for a degrees sign .... Am I missing a setting somewhere for extended ASCII characters?

Thanks again,

Martin