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  1. I have SubRip .SRT files that I have successfully extracted from MPEG-2 files using CCExtractor, and they have horizontal positioning based on whitespaces that make each line 32 characters long.

    The problem is that DirectVobSub seems to just trim these whitespaces instead of using them to properly position the subtitles. I know I have the latest version of DirectVobSub because I got it in the latest version of the K-Lite Codec Mega Pack that I just installed this morning.

    Is there any setting in DirectVobSub that causes it to use the extra whitespaces to properly horizontally position the subtitles instead of trimming them and aligning all the lines the same? I already tried checking the "MOD32 fix" check box under the General tab in its settings, but that didn't work.

    Can xy-VSFilter use the extra whitespaces to properly horizontally position the subtitles? I'm starting to wonder if I should have installed it instead of DirectVobSob.

    If not, is there software that can convert these SubRip files into a subtitle file format that supports positioning data and that DirectVobSub can read, with the horizontal positioning data set based on the whitespaces that make each line 32 characters long?

    I think the current version of DirectVobSub supports .SUB, .IDX, .SMI, .PSB, .SSA, .ASS, .USF, .XSS, .RT, and .SUP files, but I'm not sure which of those support horizontal positioning data, so I'm not even sure where to even begin looking for software that would do this conversion.
    Last edited by ChaosMageX; 5th Apr 2015 at 11:19.
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  2. Don't think there is a software which convert white spaces to coordinates.
    Mainly because:
    a. it's a stupid thing to use white spaces for positioning (srt doesn't support positioning, the positioning should be done by the decoder), better use .ass or other more advanced formats
    b. depending on the font white spaces have different sizes and since srt doesn't support setting a specific font, guessing the white spaces would require the converter to know the white space size of the font used
    -> ass has a '\pos(<X>,<Y>)' tag which allows to set the start position of the subtitles
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