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I'm having problems playing ALL videos that have .IDX/.SUB subtitle files associated with them. Most of them take more than a couple seconds to buffer (which is really long!), then the audio starts playing for a couple of seconds, and then XBMC crashes. Renaming the subs to a different filename fixes the problem because XBMC is no longer loading them.

This problem only started happening recently. I did some testing, and it happens with both local files and networked files. The XBMC log from one session is 18MB and reports a MASSIVE error list after:

Quote:21:54:48 T:3944 M:2200444928 NOTICE: Opening Subtitle file: C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\XBMC\cache\subtitle.idx
22:01:36 T:816 M:2200334336 NOTICE: running thread: CDVDPlayerAudio:rocess()

The list looks to be thousands of lines of errors, mainly consisting of the same lines repeated over and over several hundred times, including:

Quote:22:01:36 T:2836 M:2186752000 WARNING: CDVDPlayer::CheckContinuity - stream wrapback detected (2)
22:01:36 T:2836 M:2112729088 WARNING: CDVDPlayer::CheckContinuity - stream wrapback detected (1)
22:01:36 T:2836 M:2112720896 WARNING: CDVDPlayer::CheckContinuity - resyncing due to stream wrapback (1)
22:01:44 T:2836 M:239636480 ERROR: CDVDDemuxFFmpeg::Read : Access violation at 0x77c47034: Writing location 0x00002313
22:01:44 T:2836 M:239628288 WARNING: CDVDPlayer::CheckPlayerInit(3) - Ignoring too large delay of 1739549666.666667
22:01:44 T:2836 M:239628288 ERROR: CDVDDemuxFFmpeg::Read : Access violation at 0x77c47034: Writing location 0x0000f1df
22:01:45 T:2324 M:242941952 ERROR: CDVDVideoCodecFFmpeg:ecode - avcodec_decode_video returned failure
22:01:45 T:816 M:242896896 NOTICE: Creating audio device with codec id: 86018, channels: 2, sample rate: 48000, no pass-through
22:01:45 T:816 M:242642944 WARNING: CWin32DirectSound::AddPackets - buffer underrun
22:01:48 T:2324 M:247717888 ERROR: CDVDVideoCodecFFmpeg:ecode - avcodec_decode_video returned failure
22:01:48 T:816 M:247697408 ERROR: CDVDAudioCodecLibFaad() : Bitstream value not allowed by specification
22:01:51 T:816 M:245432320 ERROR: CDVDAudioCodecLibFaad() : Gain control not yet implemented

Anybody got any idea what's going on?

Bump! I really want to be able to watch some of my foreign films!

Well, I did a forum search, and there is a mention by a couple people about this problem, but nobody has found a fix for it. (Thread= http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=32843)

Here is my setup:

1. XBMC For Windows Rev16944 -Jester
2. Windows XP SP3 x86 (+All Windows Updates)
3. x86 2.0GHz Pentium D Dual Core
4. Memory: 2GB RAM
5. Geforce 8600GT Video Card
6. Integrated Audio
7. Other Devices: PS3 Bluetooth Remote
8. Detailed Instructions to Reproduce the Problem: Play any video with .IDX+.SUB subtitles and XBMC will crash!
10. Debug Log: See first post...

.IDX+.SUB subtitles work just fine on XBMC for Xbox...

My WinXP 8.10 Atlantis also crashes on .sub files (movie stops playing like I would press Stop button)
.srt works ok

Any solution for this?

alessio,
If you have plain ascii .sub subtitle file (not the .IDX+.SUB), just rename it to .srt for example and it works. Didn't realize this until you had the same problem too.
There seems to be a bug.

nanite1000 Wrote:alessio,
If you have plain ascii .sub subtitle file (not the .IDX+.SUB), just rename it to .srt for example and it works. Didn't realize this until you had the same problem too.
There seems to be a bug.

Thanks, I will try it
Hope that's going to be fixed in next release

.IDX+.SUB files do not work when you rename them, as they are completely different formats.

and I was about to make up a bug report for this, laughs.

I have the same problem. None of my movies buffer ever, this one movie has two subtitle files and it crashes right now.

Running the lastest svn, and tried 8.10 release in the bedroom machine same problem.

Well, I doubt this will be fixed immediately, because its been an outstanding issue for a couple months now and hasn't even been looked at. Plus there are so many other thing that the devs are working on, so I guess we'll just have to wait...

Until then, just download alternate subs from OpenSubtitles. I know .SRT is not nearly as good as .SUB (or accurate to the original source), but we have no other option at this point.

http://www.videohelp.com/tools/Subrip#comments

Apparently, this program will convert .sub/idx to .srt.

I'm also having the problem: http://pastebin.com/m173e6038

i think this is the ticket: http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/5193

SubRip looks promising. Though, I'm not looking forward to converting hundreds of subs with it!

That trac ticket might be incorrect. The original poster states that the problem is non-existant in Windows...

I had this problem also but assumed that it was just something with the one .idx file. Most of my movies use .srt so I didn't bother thinking about it any further.

I made a ticket for this problem:
http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/5645