AVStoDVD / SubtitleCreator: "Index was outside the bounds of the array"

[motyla noga]

Hi All,

new posters, so should say thanks to you all for all the help i've received off here as a browser. however, i've come to a dead end with my DVD project now.

I'm trying to debug my SRT. I've had to lose all the nice Polish characters, done. Had a few double spaces. gone (I pretty much compiled the SRT file by hand - don't ask!).

I've managed to debug it to the satisfaction of AEG-Sub. But Subtitle Creator just won't get past this unidentified obstacle:

Error reading subtitle 261 "Index was outside the bounds of the array"

I've looked and looked at the subtitle in question. Re-typed it manually. Looked for spaces, characters. Somehow I just can't see the problem.

Hence, when I try to encode the DVD using AVStoDVD, it always aborts at the subtitle encoding stage.

The subtitles are the subject of some important school work I'm doing, which I'd like to submit in a way that I believe the people marking it will actually be encouraged to engage with the text AND the film together, as they're intended - i.e. a regular DVD!

I'm very new to this, but would love to continue translating film subtitles. Would appreciate any help. SRT attached.

Motyla Noga!

[Nikse]

SubtitleEdit says: Line 1210 - error reading time code: 00:20:48,880 --> 00:20:50,917,
Seems to be an extra comma at the end of the line...

[motyla noga]

Haha!

That seems to have done the trick!

Sometime you just can't see the wood for the trees, can you?

Thank you Nikse!

I'll no doubt be posting on here again when I come up against my next problem

Cheers

[motyla noga]

It's funny that the additional comma seemed to be on 262, not 261.

[motyla noga]

Update: AVStoDVD still aborts the process.

[Budman1]

My Subtitle edit got:



I removed extra comma and re-broke the line correctly in the next 2 errors and it tests ok

[motyla noga]

Hi - thanks.

My up-to-date SRT file (attached) seems to have had that one fixed already.

Out of interest, could you tell me where the other two errors were located?

It now loads without any warnings in both AEGISUB and SubtitleCreator.

But when the video and audio coding is finished on AVStoDVD it still aborts.

[Budman1]

The other 2 errors were because of the extra comma. Several subtitle editors and conversion programs do not like punctuation errors, lines ending in multiple spaces/commas, and the like.

Just wondering, did you ever try to shorten your srt file to like 2 lines and see if it encodes? That would tell you if there is actually an error within the SRT or something more like saved in UTF-8 vs ANSI, or other more functional type mismatch. And what is the error you get when it fails?

UPDATE:
Okay I downloaded the latest AVStoDVD and tried your subtitles thru number 39 because that's where it puked first time. It hangs aborted if you leave the Parenthesis in in subtitle 39 but finishes if you remove them. Again punctuation mismatch, fussiness between programs.

A side note, this version seems to be awfully fussy compared to the older original version I had on my computer. Oh, well, your problem is probably mostly punctuation, even valid ones that AVStoDVD doesn't like or one of the programs it uses like MuxMan doesn't like it.

[Budman1]

Looks like AVStoDVD version 2.8.4 has Tools->check/fix subtitles. and will save a fixed version of your subtitles. Might saave you some time.

[motyla noga]

Cheers Budman1 - so it has!

I downloaded and tried again.

Unfortunately the best the new feature seems to offer is to tell me that there are 4 errors in the file.

Where they are is still a complete mystery.

Update: I added a subtitle in sub creator and saved as SRT.

When I added this new SRT to the AVI- mix, it said there were no issues with it any more - Fingers crossed!

[motyla noga]

Excellent! Job done!

The problem now is that the file size is bigger than estimated (i.e. bigger than a DVD)

[Budman1]

Not to familiar with AVStoDVD so I think thats a problem for it. Can you set parameters in AVStoDVD to create size?

[motyla noga]

Indeed you can - having seen that the first time it overshot on the DVD length, I simply had to reduced the intended output size and hey-presto - a working DVD.

Thanks for all of your help Budman & Nikse.