Sticking Subtitles

rtbond wrote on 4/10/2010, 1:42 PM

This is the first time I have encountered this problem, which I suspect may be a DVD player bug. I am looking to see if anyone else has ever run into this behavior.

I exported regions as subtitles from Vegas (v9) and created a DVD with these subtitles using DVD Architect v5.0.

On one player (the Sony BDP-S370, a Blu-Ray player in Sony's current product line), the end of a subtitle is not being detected and hence a subtitle only stops
displaying when another subtitle is encountered. The subtitle momentarily blinks at the point it is expected to end, but continues displaying.

Comments

farss wrote on 4/10/2010, 5:12 PM

You might be able to cure this problem by adding empty subtitles.

Bob.

rtbond wrote on 4/10/2010, 7:19 PM

Bob,

Yes the workaround is to insert a "benign" subtitle after each real subtitle. I found subtitles with a blank space could not serve as a "benign" subtitle as when imported into DVD-A they would appear to have numeric data replacing the space (strange). I used a single "-" in as subtitle text and that seem to work as a means to workaround the behavior (a non-visible character would have been idle, but for my purposes displaying the dash is OK.

Thanks!