[LINUX] VDPAU and embedded SSA/ASS subtitles?

Darn, they denied the patch. Hopefully that other implementation he's talking about gets added soon.

If the other implementation simply needs some cleanup I can see it getting committed soon. I like the sound of the other solution more than my own given it takes care of the problem for all renderes. If you're impatient you can always use my patch in the meantime, it's what I'll be doing.

Now my XBMC (installed 5 days ago) will crash (shutdown) when I browse for .sub/.idx-subtitles. I use VPAUD.

Is this fixed in the patch, Kirov? How can I apply that patch?
Will this problem be fixed in a upcoming xbmc release?

duttzi Wrote:Now my XBMC (installed 5 days ago) will crash (shutdown) when I browse for .sub/.idx-subtitles. I use VPAUD.

Is this fixed in the patch, Kirov? How can I apply that patch?
Will this problem be fixed in a upcoming xbmc release?

You should probably start a new thread and post a debug log. Make sure you read the "post about a problem in a useful manner" thread before you do so.

It's pretty hard to help you if you don't post any specifics. "Installed 5 days ago" tells us nothing. You could have installed a two year-old build, or a two hour old build.

If you installed a really recent build, it's probably because the code in the svn is sort of unstable right now.

A BIG thanks to whom worked on this.
Tested a couple of minutes ago with a fresh svn compile: now styled subs on all the fansubs I've tried.

If someone doesn't mind, I could use a bit of help applying this patch.

I checked out the latest SVN and am trying to run the patch from $HOME/XBMC with

patch -p0 -i xbmc-vdpau-subtitles.patch

but it keeps throwing an error back -

patch: **** Only garbage was found in the patch input.

Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? from my research thus far, it appears I've given "patch" the wrong format flag, but I'm not sure what the correct one is.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

As of rev 22961-22964, it shouldn't be necessary to apply that patch.

Yep. That took care of it.

SVN 22999 crashed when playing and had some subtitle skewing (being rendered at such an extreme angle that it looked like gibberish)

SVN 23005 doesn't crash but still has the subtitle rendering issue.

Some of the subtitles are rendered correctly, others look like gibberish.

However, I've found a workaround that will hold me until this is found and fixed.

1. Play file w/ VDPAU enabled
2. Note some(not all) corrupted subtitles
3. Stop playback and go to settings>Videos
4. Change rendering method to something else
5. Play file again and notice perfect subtitles
6. Stop playback - Go back to settings>Videos and re-select VDPAU as the renderer
7. Play file again, note perfect subtitles w/ VDPAU acceleration.

This "fixes" the issue for all of my anime files w/ ssa/ass subtitles until I shut down XBMC.

if you dont feel like recompiling xbmc to fix this issue, i have a workaround for it i have been using in the meantime. you can extract your ASS subs, and convert them to SRT with the perl script linked below, and use that as an external .srt file, and the subs will show up. might be useful for you.

http://github.com/res0nat0r/ass2srt

This is great news! Having to watch many anime without VDPAU enabled has definitely not been fun. I'm hoping XBMC 9.10 will have this working perfectly.