Just a little need for ASS subtitles tests

[Buffalobiian]

I tried some Macross F eps, but karaoke isn't animated it seems.

[SFW] Queen's Blade S2 Episode 11

OP starts at 00:15
ED starts at 22:24 (the animated subs anyway)

By animated, these only change colour, so it's not the fancy bells and whistles you get in some releases. I haven't come across those in softsubs yet I don't think.

[David75]

[SFW] Queen's Blade S2 Episode 11

OP starts at 00:15
ED starts at 22:24 (the animated subs anyway)

By animated, these only change colour, so it's not the fancy bells and whistles you get in some releases. I haven't come across those in softsubs yet I don't think.

Thanks a lot, there's already a lot with kanji, color change and so on.
It allowed me to discover my mpc-hc wasn't that well tuned regarding non static subs.
VLC worked well regarding subs.
I will check later how it works through a realtime transcode to a PS3.

Edit:
There are many ways to transcode a video for the PS3 with PS3 MS
One of them has colorchanging subs but no kanji
The has no colorchanging, but kanji and retrieves the right fonts.
I will have to search further why it works that way, because I have the same problem on my comp... So it was finally a good thing I searched into this
Thanks again

[Buffalobiian]

Thanks a lot, there's already a lot with kanji, color change and so on.
It allowed me to discover my mpc-hc wasn't that well tuned regarding non static subs.
VLC worked well regarding subs.
I will check later how it works through a realtime transcode to a PS3.

Glad to help. I'd be interested in your results from the realtime trancode, since I'm about to set up a PS3 media server myself.

[David75]

Glad to help. I'd be interested in your results from the realtime trancode, since I'm about to set up a PS3 media server myself.

I edited right at the same time you were writing your post.

I use PS3 Media server and I'm getting more and more acustomed to it.
I use it on a Win7x64 box.

It works fairly well, provided you have a gigabit link beetween your PC-switch-PS3, at least for high quality files.

[Buffalobiian]

It works fairly well, provided you have a gigabit link beetween your PC-switch-PS3, at least for high quality files.

I guess a g w/lan won't cut it then.

[David75]

I guess a g w/lan won't cut it then.

Well, from what I read, wi-fi streaming doesn't seem to work that well. At least anytime you have HD files+transcoding.
I hate wi-fi, and I know how to run cables in flats/appartments/houses, so I chose that solution.
The solution is certainly to reduce the quality of the transcode, but the idea in using the PS3 is to have some quality on a flat panel. So it all depends on what you're ready to lose I guess.

Regarding subs, I'm trying to understang how mplayer and ffmpeg binaries are used by PS3 MS in order to check wether I can introduce libass library that does a very good job in VLC.
Apparently, at least I my level, I can't have mixed alphabet and kanji characters in the same line with VSfilter or mpc internal subtitle decoder. I can't have karaoke animation
VLC does that very well... using libass, hence my searches.

[David75]

For those interrested the problem was a minor one.
In DirectVobSub configuration, Misc tab, "Pre-Buffer subpicture" must remain unchecked or it will mess with subtitles animation.

Now the Queen's blade subtitles animation works with kanji and romaji, the mixed kanji/romaji lines work in railgun 14 OP (around 2'50"), ladies versus buttler op with animated subs all around screen works.

I have yet to find a non hardcoded very rich animated subtitle: with littles stars/hearts and complex animation as we get in some ops. But it's of a very little importance now that I cover like 99% of subtitles needs.