[MPlayer-users] Bug? dumpmpsub produces unreadable files

[Anthony Winters]

I've recently been attempting to put together a decent subtitle file for 
'Castle in the Sky' - the UK DVD edition has a comically bad dubtitle. I 
downloaded a collection of sub files from scriptclub.org, and found that 
they were all timed for three-part LD versions of the film.

Working first with the Karinkuru .js files, I successfully created and 
concatenated three .mpsub files. I then converted the resulting Laputa.mpsub 
file to an SRT subtitle.

Unfortunately, it only converted the first twelve or so subtitles. 
Inspecting the .mpsub, I found that this sort of thing had been happening 
(just an e.g, not an actual example):

01.44 3
Hey, you!

00.20 3
Hey, you!
What?

00.20 3

What?

As far as I can tell, the mpsub reader breaks on the blank line in that last 
subtitle, both when converting to other subtitle formats and when actually 
playing the film. I tried doing the same with the other scripts available, 
and the same thing happens.

I do notice that the line left blank is not in fact empty - there's a space 
character there, whereas the blank lines that separate subtitles are 
genuinely blank. It looks like mplayer was trying to workaround this by 
inserting that space, but it hasn't worked.

I'm running MPlayer 1.0pre3 - I decided to try the latest version before I 
did anything else, so as to avoid raising an issue that's already been 
fixed. Any suggestions?

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