Subtitle Edit won't start anymore

[EdwhardHitten]

Hello Folks.
On Ubuntu 23.04. Subtitle Edit won't start anymore. Help needed, thanks!

A few errors in Terminal:

Gtk-Message: 12:25:07.697: Failed to load module "gail"
Gtk-Message: 12:25:07.697: Failed to load module "atk-bridge"
Gtk-Message: 12:25:07.707: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"

and

[ERROR] FATAL UNHANDLED EXCEPTION: System.ArgumentException: The requested FontFamily could not be found [GDI+ status: FontFamilyNotFound]
  at System.Drawing.GDIPlus.CheckStatus (System.Drawing.Status status) [0x001ce] in <509ee10245254454ac9e4c812f7a6dba>:0 
  at System.Drawing.FontFamily..ctor (System.Drawing.Text.GenericFontFamilies genericFamily) [0x0004d] in <509ee10245254454ac9e4c812f7a6dba>:0 
  at (wrapper remoting-invoke-with-check) System.Drawing.FontFamily..ctor(System.Drawing.Text.GenericFontFamilies)
  at System.Drawing.FontFamily.get_GenericSansSerif () [0x00000] in <509ee10245254454ac9e4c812f7a6dba>:0 
  at System.Drawing.Font.CreateFont (System.String familyName, System.Single emSize, System.Drawing.FontStyle style, System.Drawing.GraphicsUnit unit, System.Byte charSet, System.Boolean isVertical) [0x00011] in <509ee10245254454ac9e4c812f7a6dba>:0 
  at System.Drawing.Font..ctor (System.String familyName, System.Single emSize, System.Drawing.FontStyle style, System.Drawing.GraphicsUnit unit, System.Byte gdiCharSet, System.Boolean gdiVerticalFont) [0x00011] in <509ee10245254454ac9e4c812f7a6dba>:0 
  at System.Drawing.Font..ctor (System.String familyName, System.Single emSize, System.String systemName) [0x00000] in <509ee10245254454ac9e4c812f7a6dba>:0 
  at (wrapper remoting-invoke-with-check) System.Drawing.Font..ctor(string,single,string)
  at System.Drawing.SystemFonts.get_DefaultFont () [0x00000] in <509ee10245254454ac9e4c812f7a6dba>:0 
  at System.Windows.Forms.Theme.get_DefaultFont () [0x0000a] in <69e4940ac30645898b9c63f67c310dba>:0 
  at System.Windows.Forms.Control.get_DefaultFont () [0x00005] in <69e4940ac30645898b9c63f67c310dba>:0 
  at System.Windows.Forms.Control.get_Font () [0x00028] in <69e4940ac30645898b9c63f67c310dba>:0 
  at System.Windows.Forms.Form..ctor () [0x00018] in <69e4940ac30645898b9c63f67c310dba>:0 
  at Nikse.SubtitleEdit.Forms.Main..ctor () [0x0013d] in <dd4d8381b3a849069794f762552a477b>:0 
  at (wrapper remoting-invoke-with-check) Nikse.SubtitleEdit.Forms.Main..ctor()
  at Nikse.SubtitleEdit.Program.Main () [0x00038] in <dd4d8381b3a849069794f762552a477b>:0

[loninappleton]

Same problem here on Win7. I tried a backup disk with no recent changes then went to a second, my mirror machine, and had similar problems.
Screen freezes at startup.

What could effect multiple machines and program versions?

One thing I noted in trying to reinstall was that the MVPlayer needed for video/audio would not auto install with an error trying to access Github.

-- On Windows 10, my third and last PC to try, SE loads the SRT and an audio stream but cannot load the video.

I will wait to see any replies without trying to contact SE.

[loninappleton]

What a day. I did find one working edition at videohelp software which is the portable current edition, not beta. Unfortunately my good install (after taking a tip to run chkdsk from an older thread) cannot tell if audio is on b/c no speaker on the PC. I'll try to duplicate the procedure.
At least no screen lockups for now.

[locotus]

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/use-the-system-file-checker-tool-to-repair-m...3-966e85d4094e

[loninappleton]

I am trying the sfc, also chkdsk and system cleanup. A programmed edition of SFC I have runs from the desktop (from sevenforums, a trusted source.) On that it says if corrupt files are found rerun it 2-3 times and reboot in between. Takes time but I'll see if it works. I will have to reinstll Subtitle Edit after all that.

[loninappleton]

The cleaning and SFC routines plus a fresh install of 3.6.12 portable got the program running. However SE still cannot find the player install needed to use any video. Same stallout occurs in trying to use the pop up install prompt or the the one in settings.

Please suggest a manual install of the MPV player.

[loninappleton]

I have the MPV player and ready to use it says. It took a long time and I thought it was stalled out.
I'll see if everything is going tomorrow.

[EdwhardHitten]

Found some info here but it's almost like reading chinese to me: https://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-2422989.html

Found this to work:
- Download the Portable version os Subtitle Edit here (it's a Windows version but works fine with Mono): https://github.com/SubtitleEdit/subtitleedit/releases

[Attachment 70545 - Click to enlarge]
Save it somewhere and extract it. I gave the file more understandable name.

- Down this page, they explain how to run it: https://www.nikse.dk/subtitleedit/help#linux
- I ran all these commands (except for installing the VLC, I use the MPV player instead):

sudo apt-get install mono-complete
sudo apt-get install libhunspell-dev
sudo apt-get install libmpv-dev  
sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr
sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr-eng
sudo apt-get install vlc 
sudo apt-get install ffmpeg

- Open Terminal, and enter these lines of commands, for changing to the folder containing the .EXE program. and launching the program:

cd /home/username/your_path/Folder'sname/
mono SubtitleEdit.exe

Then it starts well here. Notice that if I make "Ctrl +V" on the Terminal window, the program crashes.

Hope it helps you guys.

[loninappleton]

thanks for that for Ubuntu users.


My Windows 7 Subtitle Edit is going where ever I did the cleaning routines mentioned earlier. chkdsk, sfc, the Win7 diskcleaner (not CCleaner etc) then SFC a time or two or three with restarts in between. SFC did detect problem it could not fix after all that but SE runs better.

[loninappleton]

One follow up here b/c no other place it seemed to make sense.

I had the screen lockup problem again. Now knowing I should run SFC, I simply loaded that to a window on top of the frozen Subtitle job. As the SFC worked, the Subtitle Edit 'activated' and began to show everything normally. This was so odd I thought it worth mentioning.

[loninappleton]

One follow up here b/c no other place it seemed to make sense.

I had the screen lockup problem again. Now knowing I should run SFC, I simply loaded that to a window on top of the frozen Subtitle job. As the SFC worked, the Subtitle Edit 'activated' and began to show everything normally. This was so odd I thought it worth mentioning.

same problem same fix the second time 05 10 2023 so it is a consistent "effect", ( feature or bug.) I don't know what sort of
procedure might fix it like running SFC more permanently