[architeuthis666]

Has anyone else ever seen a problem where subtitles come out mangled to look like little boxes?



(Yeah I'm a narutard, sue me...)

I am a new XBMC user so I can't tell if this is a new issue. I have been happily watching all my subtitled anime with no problems. These are files containing subtitle streams, not hardsubs.

For several files I have, the subtitles are being mangled into these little boxes. If I play the file with DivX Plus Player the subtitles on my laptop, they are okay. I tried telling XBMC to override any fonts specified in the subtitles, but it didn't fix it. I am quite certain I have played other MKVs with subtitles and they worked normally.

My setup is as follows:
- XBMC 12.1 Frodo
- Windows XP Media Center Edition
- No subtitle add-ons, just XBMC defaults

The video file information:
- H.264
- MKV file format
- AAC audio

I don't currently have any tools that can extract the subtitle streams so I have no info about what's in there.

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architeuthis666

[Ned Scott]

MediaInfo (wiki) should tell us something about the subs.

[architeuthis666]

ASS subs. Ripped with Aegisub -- second to last line is the garbled one in my pic, but a lot of them were garbled:

[Script Info]
; Script generated by Aegisub 3.0.2
; http://www.aegisub.org/
Title: English
ScriptType: v4.00+
WrapStyle: 0
PlayResX: 848
PlayResY: 480
ScaledBorderAndShadow: yes
Video Zoom: 6
Last Style Storage: Default
Video Zoom Percent: 1
Scroll Position: 0
Active Line: 8
Collisions: Normal

[V4+ Styles]
Format: Name, Fontname, Fontsize, PrimaryColour, SecondaryColour, OutlineColour, BackColour, Bold, Italic, Underline, StrikeOut, ScaleX, ScaleY, Spacing, Angle, BorderStyle, Outline, Shadow, Alignment, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Encoding
Style: Default,Baar Sophia,32,&H00FFFFFF,&H00FFFFFF,&H00020203,&H00000000,0,0,0,0,100,100,0,0,1,2,2,2,20,20,20,1
Style: sign,Baar Sophia,32,&H00FFFFFF,&H00FFFFFF,&H00020203,&H00000000,0,0,0,0,100,100,0,0,1,2,2,3,0,0,0,1
Style: msg,Verdana,18,&H00FFFFFF,&H00FFFFFF,&H00020203,&H00000000,0,-1,0,0,100,100,0,0,1,2,2,5,20,20,20,1

[Events]
Format: Layer, Start, End, Style, Name, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Effect, Text
Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.90,0:01:29.84,msg,,0,0,0,,{\pos(424,383)}How's our driving?\Nhttp://horriblesubs.tk
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.80,0:01:36.43,Default,,0,0,0,,{\i1} Frog... I'm a frog...
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.77,0:01:41.67,Default,,0,0,0,,{\i1}I can hear... the frog song.{\i0}\N \N \N \N
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.77,0:01:41.67,Default,,0,0,0,,{\i1\pos(575,475)}Connecting Hearts
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.83,0:01:46.37,Default,,0,0,0,,{\i1}Gamatatsu's... mind...
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.93,0:01:50.13,Default,,0,0,0,,{\i1}I can hear... the frog song.{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.00,0:01:55.03,Default,,0,0,0,,{\i1}Read his mind...\N{\i1}and respond to it...
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.10,0:01:59.80,Default,,0,0,0,,{\i1}- I can hear...\N{\i1}- the frog song.{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:02:00.17,0:02:04.00,Default,,0,0,0,,{\i1}- Chinchiro chinchiro chinchirorin.{\i0}\N{\i1}- I can hear...{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.37,0:02:06.30,Default,,0,0,0,,{\i1}Chinchiro chinchiro...{\i0}