2014-03-18, 19:12 | Link #1 |
1982 tuga
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Portugal
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Playing fansubs with ASUS O!Play
I have used for a few years my brother's "ASUS O!Play Air HDP-R3" unit. It's actually quite nice, not perfect but it reads almost everything (keep in mind it was bought circa 2008).
Some of the videos I played with it were anime softsub fansubs, including the .mkv xvid and the .mkv x264, some with .ssa subtitles. This is were it falls off a bit: it displays .srt correctly, even .ssa that isn't in an atypical position of the screen, although with a single font type, it only allows type size and colour change. But modern anime fansubs of today and those I tested use stylized font types and also some specific subs with atypical positions, like signs or notes. The ASUS displays them at the same position, most of the time overlapping them with such a mess that makes me wish the fansub was a hardsub version. I've been looking at the new O!Play units like the "Asus O!Play Mini Media Player" or the "Asus Media Player O!Play Media Pro". I was wondering if these new versions have updated .ssa playback or if they'll still make a mess of them. Has anyone bought or tried any of these that can share their input? Cheers
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2014-03-27, 13:18 | Link #3 | |
1982 tuga
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But what software can read those complex .ass subs and encoded them properly on the new hardsub re-encoded version? I just found out that VLC player can "convert" them, but its batch properties aren't that great and the options aren't that good. Yes, it encodes the "overlay signs" properly, fortunately, but the hardsub re-encoded version font type isn't the same as the original softsub as show in my VLC player; VLC plays the original softsub with the original font types nicely. Is there another alternative?
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2014-03-28, 05:21 | Link #4 | |
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I don't know how good the batch mode is at the moment, though. At times it was counterintuitive. |
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2014-03-28, 08:47 | Link #5 |
AS Oji-kun
Join Date: Nov 2006
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FFmpeg can do this, too, though the Linux version of the third-party WinFF GUI for the program doesn't include the option to convert to hardsubs. You'd have to edit the "presets" and add the appropriate command-line parameters for ffmpeg. I don't know if the Windows version has a more full-featured interface.
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2014-03-28, 19:50 | Link #6 | |
1982 tuga
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There's another option called "import SRT" that doesn't have a "burn in" option. So renamed the .ass subtitle fo .srt. As expected, the video was encoded without any subtitles. Mind you that I always scan the original .mkv file. (BTW, the .mkv in question is "[Saizen]_Captain_Tsubasa_-_74_[DVD][5DF875AB].mkv", a very recent one.) My HandBrake version is 0.9.9.5530 - 32bit.
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2014-03-29, 07:26 | Link #7 | |
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