Issues with previous Subtitle on screen

[Prakka 0]

Hello Emby community,

I’m currently testing Emby as a possible replacement for Plex, but I’m running into an issue with subtitles on Android.

The problem does not seem to occur on other clients, such as the Samsung TV Tizen app. I’m not at home right now, so I’m not able to provide all the detailed information or logs yet, but I wanted to ask first whether there are any known subtitle issues on Android.

The issue I’m seeing is that the previous subtitle remains on screen while the next subtitle appears above it. Then, when the following subtitle loads, the older subtitle disappears. So for a short time, two or even 4 subtitle lines are visible at once, with the old one below the new one.

Has anyone else experienced this on Android, or is this a known issue?

Thanks in advance!

[Prakka 0]

Sorry I cannot edit the post, but here is a example image to show you the issue. The subtitle marked in yellow, is the new subtitle showing after the old one is gone, so it shows both.

Edited May 21 by Prakka

[Prakka 0]

Again, edit is not possible. In the SRT file the corresponding rows are

 

8
00:00:23,208 --> 00:00:27,420
We kunnen je matrix overzetten.
- Vegas is ook niet alles.

9
00:00:27,369 --> 00:00:30,738
Het spijt me, maar ik kan niet.
- Waarom?

The timing overlaps, as you can see. I have used the tool AutoSubSync for fixing the subtitle with my MKV file. But is there a way to fix this in the Android app? I dont have the issue in the Samsung Tizen app nor in Plex.

[Luke 42593]

Hi, that's odd. I don't recall anyone reporting this before. Where do you get messy subtitles like this?

Anyway we'll take a look at it. Thanks.

[Prakka 0]

Hi Luke,

I did not see anything like it when I searched the forum. I used AutoSubSync to fix the timing for the srt file for my files, because there was no working srt to be found (old serie) I think this creates the issue, the tool works but when testing emby before buying the premiere this was the first thing is see different.

Can you share information of you would fix this or a time path? Really want to give emby a go. Thank you.

[ebr 16449]

23 hours ago, Prakka said:

The timing overlaps, as you can see

So, isn't the UI doing exactly what it is being told to do...?

[Lessaj 512]

Sounds like it might be worth trying to run them through Subtitle Edit with Fix Common Errors to correct the overlapping times.

[Prakka 0]

10 minutes ago, ebr said:

So, isn't the UI doing exactly what it is being told to do...?

Maybe, but not in Android or web (plex), what i tested.

4 minutes ago, Lessaj said:

Sounds like it might be worth trying to run them through Subtitle Edit with Fix Common Errors to correct the overlapping times.

Yes this works. But do you know it can do this in a batch in have about 7 seasons with about 25 srt files per season. Did not found it yet in subtitle edit.

[Lessaj 512]

15 minutes ago, Prakka said:

Yes this works. But do you know it can do this in a batch in have about 7 seasons with about 25 srt files per season. Did not found it yet in subtitle edit.

Can run it from command line in a loop, something like this. Can update the file in place by removing the /outputfilename argument but for safety it's good to output to a new file.

for FILE in *.srt ; do FILE_FIXED="${FILE%.srt}.fixed.srt" subtitleedit /convert "${FILE}" srt /outputfilename:"${FILE_FIXED}" /FixCommonErrors ; done

 

Edited May 22 by Lessaj

[Prakka 0]

Just now, Lessaj said:

Can run it from command line in a loop, something like this. Can update the file in place by removing the /outputfilename argument but for safety it's good to output to a new file.

for FILE in *.srt ; do FILE_FIXED="${FILE%.srt}.fixed.srt" subtitleedit /convert "${FILE}" srt /outputfilename:"${FILE_FIXED}" /FixCommonErrors ; done

 

Thank you for the help, will take a look at this, did not know it had a command version.

Hope Emby will include some kind of fix for this, that would be great. Also between app system versions it differs how it shows the srt on screen.

Also wanted to say, purchased premiere it looks great and nicely organised. Must admit I needed to do this years earlier.

[Luke 42593]

3 hours ago, Prakka said:

Maybe, but not in Android or web (plex), what i tested.

Yes this works. But do you know it can do this in a batch in have about 7 seasons with about 25 srt files per season. Did not found it yet in subtitle edit.

Technically I think the overlap is correct. For players that don't show it, it could be that their subtitle renderer is built to only display one subtitle entry at a time.

[ebr 16449]

6 hours ago, Prakka said:

Hope Emby will include some kind of fix for this

A fix for what?  The program did exactly what it was told.  It is very valid to potentially have an overlap.