Subtitles. . Inverted AND Missing?

[The Legendary Robanian]

Hello, I've begun messing around VitrualDub Mod and adding subtitles. On my own I've managed to find the plugin for dubmod for the subtitle filter and a .ass to .ssa converter for my subs from aegisub. But after I've converted those using Subtitle Workshop and then load them in DubMod, they rebelliously afixed themselves on the opposite end:

I've tried browsing and gleaning the settings and features on Subtitle Workshop, but haven't found anything that could bring about the option to invert my subs. D;
And for another point, when I compress my video and open it in anything else, WM player, Vegas, ect. The subs won't show up. :/ Open the supposed "hardsub" in dub mod, and there they are in the right screen. . inverted. So any help or direction, likely to somewhere I wasn't able to find easily in search >.>", would be great. ^.^

[Qyot27]

It's much easier - and more accurate - to use AviSynth. Just put VSFilter.dll in C:\Program Files\AviSynth 2.5\plugins, and then you can use the original .ass file in your script, like so:

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AVISource("blahblah.avi") #or whatever source filter you need to use
TextSub("subtitles.ass")

No messing around with ASS->SSA conversion, nor mucking around in Subtitle Workshop, just straight through.



VSFilter.dll can be downloaded here:
http://www.videohelp.com/tools/VSFilter_DirectVobSub

You can also use it as the subtitle filter in DirectShow-based players by registering it with the command prompt - which means navigating to the folder it's in and using the command regsvr32 VSFilter.dll. When playing a video, it shows up as a green arrow in Windows' tray. You might need to uncheck the 'Prebuffer subtitles' option if you experience the subs not showing up unless you click somewhere on the timeline first.

[The Legendary Robanian]

heh, Thank-you very much. Though I'm still somewhat curious as to what happend due to all my "mucking around", I'm just glad this works, compresses, and flows nicely. [Much more nicely than doing my subs by adding the text in my avisynth script. ^.^"]

[Qyot27]

I'm not entirely sure what the root cause of them showing at the top of the screen is, but from the placement, I can guess that whatever happened changed the alignment setting from 2 (bottom middle) to 8 (top middle). Those aren't official terms, but most subtitling apps refer to the basic directions that way - Aegisub uses them for ASS subtitles the way I just mentioned, although I think I remember SRT script using the reverse pattern, where 2 was top middle and 8 was bottom. It depends on where they start counting directions from - the top of the screen or the bottom of the screen.

[TheTsunami]

Wrong page.

[Mister Hatt]

Don't use VDubMod. For anyone else who needs subtitles, use the VSFilter builds jfs has on his page specifically. Pretty much every build does things differently a bit and to ensure your subs look the same inside aegi as they do in your vid, you'll want his build of VSFilter-2.39e.

Also just so you know, your subs aren't inverted. Inversion is what you get with MaskSub and to fix it you use Turn180().FlipHorizontal() (slightly faster than just a straight FlipVertical(), gg avs code). What you have is just positioning at the top. If it happens to a specific line you can just {\an2} it, but it should be set in the styles of the script anyway.