Broken .ass files?

[Pinkishu]

Hi there,

so i'm extracting .ass files from .mkv files.
Most of those work just fine, but sometimes I come accross .ass files that are "broken", if I open them theres no clear structure or readable text just random symbols all over and avisynth TextSub won't read them

If i try to open these broken files in AegiSub it just asks me to choose an encoding out of the ones it detected (usually ~10 ish) but none of them actually make any subtitles pop up in AegiSub
Yet when I play the MKV file it shows subtitles just fine so I'm confused why this is happening.

[Ai Haibara]

Are you sure the programs you're using to extract the subtitle streams from MKVs are completely up-to-date?

If you're using mkvtoolnix, make sure it's the latest version, and try the latest version of MKVExtractGUI-2.

[Pinkishu]

Ya just DLed the latest just to test it again ^^ but still all garbled and unreadable :/

Also MKVExtractGUI2 only seems to show the Video stream, the subtitles and the fonts (+ chapters) but no audio? Even though the .mkv has audio

[Ai Haibara]

Do all the streams show up properly if you load the MKV in MediaInfo?

You might give MKVCleaver a try. Some have said it works when MKVExtractGUI/-2 doesn't; I can't comment on that, since I haven't had any problems with MKVExtractGUI/-2, save for the clashing with mkvtoolnix a while back, and the need to switch from the no-longer-updated MKVExtractGUI to the -2 version.

[Pinkishu]

Well seems MKVCleaver worked ^^ thanks~ gonna test it on the other files I had problems with later but this one worked atleast