Subtitle problem - tearing out hair

jeremyk wrote on 5/17/2006, 3:34 PM
I have subtitles I can't turn off.

In DVDA2, I'm trying to provide an on and off switch for subtitling. I have two main menus. The first one says, "subtitles are on", and the media button has "set subtitle stream = 1". The second main menu (page 2 of the first menu) says, "subtitles are off", and the media button has "set subtitle stream off". A link to turn subtitles on and off switches between the two menus. In addition, each main menu has a scene selection menu, and in those menus the links into the media set the subtitle stream appropriately.

It seems like this should work, but it doesn't, at least on either of my two Panasonic DVD players. It works fine in DVDA's preview mode.

Apologies for posting in the Vegas forum -- I urgently need to get this project working, and I'm getting really tired of trying stuff at random. Does anyone have any similar experience?

Thanks,
Jeremy

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jeremyk wrote on 5/17/2006, 9:49 PM
Found a workaround. Put in a second subtitle track with only one title on it, a "." moved to an unobtrusive location. Setting that as the subtitle track was successfuI, where turning subtitles OFF was not. Guess this is a bug in DVDA2, which of course is of no interest to Sony.

johnmeyer wrote on 5/17/2006, 10:13 PM
Just mentioned this in a thread a few days ago. There was a bug in how subtitles worked that was not fixed until version 3.0. Here is more information:

Subtitle Never Goes Away

I think your workaround is the one mentioned there. Subtitles work fine in version 3.
jeremyk wrote on 5/17/2006, 10:34 PM
Hi, John. Wow. I looked at that Forum thread, and couldn't relate it to my problem. I'm hoping I'll want to upgrade to V7 and (?) DVDA4 -- so far I have been quite disappointed that the crudest bugs in V3 (like the fact that muting or enabling tracks shifts focus to the track header and can end up letting you accidentally change video or audio levels) still haven't been corrected in V6.

My aging versions have been working well for my needs -- today's DVDA problem was the first brick wall I've slammed up against in quite a while.