Help with subtitles!

[AK2]

when I set avi files with "ass" files to play subtitles, the videos (which usually run fine) lag. What can I do to make them run normal?

[Baldrick]

Moving you to our subtitle sectoin.

What are you playing with? Try something else like VLC Media player.

[lawllmaster]

Getting a new GPU or PC would be good.... Or as Baldrick suggests, try a different video player.

[AlanHK]

Convert the ASS to SRT. These are simpler -- no colours or fonts specced -- and should be easier to render, unless you are an anime fan and really want animated subs in 6 colours and fonts.

[jman98]

Maybe the subtitles and the video are at different frame rates and the original poster lacks the experience to know/understand this. This would be the simplest and most likely explanation. If I am right, the only realistic solution is to find a subtitle file at the same frame rate as the video, if you can.

In theory the subtitles could be converted to a different frame rate, but my experience is that this is extraordinarily complicated and I've almost never been able to get it to work correctly.

[brusno]

In theory the subtitles could be converted to a different frame rate, but my experience is that this is extraordinarily complicated and I've almost never been able to get it to work correctly.

SubMagic has an option to change framerate on subtitles. You just fill in the original framerate and new framerate.

[AlanHK]

Maybe the subtitles and the video are at different frame rates and the original poster lacks the experience to know/understand this.

I thought by "lag" he meant the video was slowing down and out of sync with audio.

If the video is actually normal but subs are out of sync, that's a quite different thing.
Then you use subtltle editors to resync.