Subtitles

[minthaka]

Does somebody can tell me, why the subtitles working under Windows are useless under Linux? I've tried all kind of stuffs like MPlayer, VLC and Xine, but they have shown subtitles later or earlier but not in proper time.
Should we "transcode" the subtitle files ?

[daark.child]

Well my subtitles show up at the same time as the voice using Kaffeine and totem-xine. Does this happen on all your discs?

[minthaka]

I've spent hours over Mplayer and I figured out what to do and how to do.
1. Preparing the Mplayer:
Since there aren't as plain settings as with BSPlayer I had to modify the Preferences:
Video tab:
Video X11/xv (or what else your system supports. I have Nvidia Vanta 16MB)
Enable double buffering
Subtitle tab:
Encoding : iso8859-2 (or your region)
Font:
No autoscale
Encoding: Unicode
Blur: 0.00
Outline : 6
Text scale: 25 (or more)
On such a way your subtitle shall be readable.
2. Adjusting the subtitle. I'm using Subtitle Workshop for that. It works with Wine.
1. Open the subtitle file.
2. Switch to time view.
3. Adjust the FPS Input of the film. ( I red it with VLC)
4. Set the delay: take the first spoken sentence and adjust the timing to it.
5. Save it and watch the movie.

I must confess, that the subtitle size handling isn't well managed at all ! I would prefer better to see the font size instead of having complicated settings like blur, outline etc.