Cannot make subtitles work with specific avi

[tr_y2k]

Hello, I have always had 'eventual' success with subtitles and video files when have run into trouble in the past but this time I am truly stuck... I have an avi video and an srt subtitle file that will not work together... all other pairings of video/ subtitle files work on my computer, and I have tried the two on other machines and they dont work there either ... I have tried compressing the video both with divx and xvid but neither work... the VobSub loads in the systray and my media player hangs... once i remove the srt it plays fine. However i believe it is the video file at fault not the subtitle, because when I pair the subtitle up with another, random avi it works fine... I am using VobSub 2.39 and ffdshow.

The avi details are as follows:

Frame size: 700x320
Frame rate: 25fps
Data rate: 659kbps
Audio: mp3 48000hz Stereo 128kbps

Is there some sort of video file characteristics that must be adhered to for the subtitle to work? I have tried converting the subtitle file from srt to ass and sub but they do not work either. Any help with this would be most appreciated!

Thanks.

[poisondeathray]

Try playing it with SMplayer or KMplayer or VLC, which do not rely on the same DirectVobSub system

[tr_y2k]

Thanks, but I really want to be able to play the file in any program... I shall try it in those programs just to see, but as I said I think it is more of video file issue than my srt file... does anyone know of restrictions set by subtitles on the characteristics of video files (ie. frame size)

[poisondeathray]

Well you've tried everything already that I would have suggested

It might be a mod16 issue (i.e. 700 is not evenly divisible by 16); so you might try re-encoding & resizing to 704x320. You could test it by encoding the 1st minute in vdub, for example , and it would only take a minute to test it out.

[tr_y2k]

Thanks that did the trick! I shall have to remember that mod16 issue in future! So let it be known subtitle files will only work with correctly sized video files...!!!