xy-VSFilter Project (High Performance VSFilter Compatible Subtitle Filters)

[ikarad]

I have found a bug with subtitles.

At the left, sub renderer by vlc.
At the right, same problem with mpc-hc sub renderer and xysubfilter

[clsid]

The bug is in the subtitle itself. It uses a font that does not contain that music note character, nor has a compatible fallback font.

These renderers do not support replacing missing glyphs and it also can not be added easily.

[Liisachan]

If that's how it is, it's the typesetter's fault. Unfortunately, something like that is not so uncommon...

A quick (possibly ugly) workaround for an XySubFilter user may be "Force Default" in the Main tab of XySubFilter. A pre-set Default font, Arial, does support U+266B ♫. If MPC-HC + Internal sub renderer, then Right-click > Subtitle Tracks > Enable Default. Either way, you may have to tweak the Default style (like font size, or font name if you don't like Arial). Common Windows fonts that support this code point include: Arial & Times New Roman.

A real solution is, editing the subtitle data and changing ♫ to {\fnLucida Console}♫{\fn}, for example. There is another solution using {\p}, directly drawing the glyph; but that's rather complicated and not really softsub-friendly, while more flexible (you can draw any symbols, not even in Unicode).

[Liisachan]

Even if you enable "Force Default" in the Properties, \r-based user-side styles from SSA/ASS can't be overridden.
Tested: XySubFilter 3.2.0.806 (git) xy-VSFilter.

MPC-BE + Internal subtitle renderer can do this overriding perfectly.
mpc-hc-test.mkv (sample, 90KB)

[Nabukodonosor]

I can't make it work for me for the life of me. I've been using the 2.41.322 with the exe installer and that version works fine. I can select it in MPC-HC and MPC-BE. Also have it in the list in the External filters. But when I use this .bat installer nothing happens, like it's not installed. It even says **not installed** in the Subtitle renderer seletion. What am I duing wrong?!

[lvqcl]

From Readme.txt:

Right-click Install_XySubFilter.bat and select "Run as administrator"

Did you do that or simply double clicked the .bat file?

Also, if you use 32-bit player then you need to install 32-bit filter; if you use 64-bit player then you need to install 64-bit filter.

[Nabukodonosor]

Right click and Run as admin. I use 64-bit player.

[lvqcl]

And what exactly filter do you try to install and use?

[Nabukodonosor]

What do you mean? vsFilter.

[lvqcl]

version, bitness, where exactly to download,...

alright then, keep your secrets.

[Nabukodonosor]

Dude, I've already told you, 64bit, the latest version. Downloaded from the link in the first post of this thread.

[nateify]

Hello, I have an Avisynth question for VSFilter, I am wondering if it is possible to mask VOBSUB on top of a transparent RGBA clip. I have a very specific use case for it which is to transcode to RGBA cineform from Virtualdub. See this script which works for text based subtitles:

V=LWLibavVideoSource("00000 - 2 - h264, 1080p24.mkv")
MaskSub("subs.ass",V.width,V.height,V.framerate,V.framecount)
FlipVertical()

If I load it in Virtualdub with transparency set to checkerboard, I can verify the alpha works as intended, and the eventual encoded clip is imported into Adobe Premiere Pro where the alpha is also interpreted correctly:


However masksub does not work with VOBSUB picture based subs. I thought to simply use the VobSub filter on top of an RGB32 BlankClip however the resulting clip is completely transparent to Vdub, and the resulting encode has no opaque subs in Premiere Pro either. I don't think this is a Vdub bug as I can encoded the AVS file with FFmpeg with Avisynth support and it also ends up being a transparent clip.

V=LWLibavVideoSource("00000 - 2 - h264, 1080p24.mkv")
B=BlankClip(V,pixel_type="RGB32")
VobSub(B,"00000 - 2 - h264, 1080p24_Track04._PGS_exp.sub")

Is it possible to overlay VOBSUB over a transparent RGB32/RGBA clip to get the same result as MaskSub in Avisynth+ 3.7?