[Mplayer-users] subtitles go unsyncronized in about an hour

Arpi arpi at thot.banki.hu
Thu Jul 19 11:06:18 CEST 2001


Hi,

> A> > I use always -bps (don't remember why I add it to ~/.mplayer/config). If I
> A> > use -ss 3600 (for start playing at the first hour) the subtitles works
> A> > well, (for 5-10 minutes as when I play the complete movie) so is not a
> A> > -subfps problem.
> A> No, it is time counter problem.
> A> I saw (for -bps) that x+x+x+x+x differs _a_lot_ from 5*x, if i'm using
> A> float. (of course not 5, it's summed about 50000 times).
> A> I got near perfect result (no big difference between multiplied and summed)
> A> for a long period and at a given point the difference began to increasing.
> A> Maybe because of using gcc -mfast-math ? With double it's ok.
> 
> So you'll change it to float? It's fixed now? or not yet?
They are floats now. They will be changed to fixed or double.
Floats sux. :(

> A> > I have some problems with some subtitles, they are time based and they're
> A> > wrong. Is this possible? I got it from divxsubtitles.net, I don't think the
> A> > subtitle is wrong...
> A> Time is time, it is constant thing, except if you are time traveller :)
> A> Subtitles can be wrong, or (most possible) they are for different version of
> A> the movie. Usually multiple versions exists of a single movie over the
> A> net... screener, dvdrip etc grabs, and they can differ a lot.
> A> But you can't fix it with -subfps, even if it works...
> A> You should find different version of the .sub, or fix it manually.
> 
> Mmmm, nasty! I thought movies are movies... (execpt for Starwars that have
> 2 versions... ;)
I have 3 versions of Joan of Arc, and 2 of Gladiator.


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