Problems with Subtitles

I made a carefully crafted Quicktime text file with my subtitles, and added it to an h.264 movie. Looks good. If I go to save it as a *.mov, the file size increases by 20 Mbytes and it never saves. If I export it as an h.264 movie, it takes forever (why it has to re-encode, I don't know), and I'm left with a movie that has audio, but only one frame.
Why can't I save my movie?

QuickTime doesn't even open MPEG-2 formats without first having the $20 Apple MPEG-2 Playback Component installed.
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/mpeg2/
Then you need to use third party software to make the "conversion":
http://www.squared5.com/svideo/mpeg-streamclip-win.html

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Hi all,
I've got a DVD with multiple languages (English, Spanish, and French) and one subtitle stream (English) on the main program of a DVD I am authoring. I would like the DVD to default to the English audio stream and for the subtitles to be in the "off" state". The user can then select via a menu button if the subtitles are to be displayed or not.
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Hello, I have a old problem with Windows Media Player. In Windows 7 Windows Media Player
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Subtitle problems with Encore CS4 and BD/Blu-ray -- here is a solution!

Do you have problems with subtitles: for example they vanish completely after doing fast forward or turn them off and on again. Then here you can find one possible solution.
I am using Windows Vista 32bit. Thus Encore CS4 is the last version which I can use. Because Adobe will never provide a solution for this version, I was looking for another solution.
At least I found a workaround for my subtitle problems.
Now I am doing the following steps:
1. Create the blu-ray disk in a folder without subtitles
2. Create the subtitles with a program like "subtitle workshop"
3. Save the subtitles in the .srt format.
4. Use the program SubConverter Express v1.5.0 to convert the subtitles in the .sup format. Here you must choose a suitable font & font size.
5. Add the .sup to the blu-ray folder structure with the program BDFix Express v1.7.3. When doing that, you can also choose the language i.g. "deu" for german. You will find a detailed description in the forum on www.defsoft.com. It is very easy to understand.
6. BDFix will create a new folder with all necessary files to burn a blu-ray disk. Nothing changes in comparison to the folder which was createt by Encore except that subtitles were added.
7. You can burn this folder with a tool like imgburn.
With this workaround you will have the following advantages:
1. It seems that these subtitles were added in a blu-ray specification conform way. Fast forward/backward, switching on/off, chapter jump still work perfectly.
2. The subtitle fonts are rendered in a much more smooth way than Encore does.
3. The 5 frames gap between subtitles is not longer necessary.
4. This solution ist quite fast (about 20 minutes for a 25 GByte disc).
5. You can use these programs also for other blu-rays to add or remove subtitles.
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I have a problem with subtitles. After I insert them to movie timeline preview shows two lines i.e.:
"Now, that's a roar Boog." (subs)
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Use AC3 or PCM audio transcode settings for best player compatibility (some discussion of MPEG audio not being supported by all players, especially for NTSC discs)
Buy and use Taiyo Yuden (or Verbatim?) brand blank discs
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I can't watch .avi files with .srt subtitle files on front row anymore. The screen goes black as the first subtitle appears. On Quicktime they run fine (thanks to Perian plug in), and they did run fine on Tiger Front Row. I first thought it was because FR is now a standalone app that can't handle this kind of file, but then, why can I still see the subtitles in those screenshots inside Front Row, and why doesn't the app just ignore the srt file? Looks like it's a problem with FR alpha channel rendering (that should take care of the subtitles) or something.
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AxWindowsMediaPlayer problem with using subtitle sami.file in winform

Hello every body
I have a problem with using sami caption in axWindowsMediaPlayer;
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As i know the Synchronized Accessible Media Interchange (SAMI) file must use an .smi or .sami file name extension.
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Problem with premiere pro cs5 creating Arabic subtitle

Hi All,
I have problem with creating arabic subtitle in premire.
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The last upgrade of the STB software fixed many of the problems with closed captioning. However, there are still a number of problems. For those of us with hearing impairment, it would really be nice if they got it right. Now, at least all of the closed captioned dialog shows up (which it didn't used to do -- before, it would overwrite itself on certain stations). However, some of the dialog shows up on the screen for only a fraction of a second -- too fast to read it. Please help us hearing impaired people!!!!!

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I have downloaded a video with subtitle. When playing the edited video, the subtitle does not show up in the entire video. The subtitle comes and goes in the video.I have tried with my Mac Pro and Mac Air, with the same result. I have downloaded movie with subtitle before and never had this problem. Please advise.

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I suspect you are out of luck based on this:
Can I play my rental on more than one device?
If you download a rented movie on your computer: You can transfer it to a device such as your Apple TV (1st generation), iPhone, iPad, or iPod if it’s a standard-definition film (movies in HD can only be watched on your computer, iPad, iPhone 4 or later, iPod touch (4th generation or later), or Apple TV). Once you move the movie from your computer to a device, the movie will disappear from your computer's iTunes library. You can move the movie between devices as many times as you wish during the rental period, but the movie can only exist on one device at a time.
If you download a rented movie on your iPhone 4 or later, iPad, iPod touch (4th generation or later), or Apple TV: It is not transferable to any other device or computer.

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Hi all. The quick background:
My company made a series of films (before i joined them) which was delivered on DVD some time ago and since then some of the original projects have been lost (Don't ask how this was allowed to happen!). Our client has asked if i can supply them with two of the sections from the disc as quicktimes for them to use in a presentation.
I have used Mpeg streamclip to rip one of the sections and the result is perfect. The problem is the second section which has subtitles on it.
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If you have an A/D converter or can use your camcorder as such you can use this roundabout method.
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