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Title: Subtitles not shifting
Post by: curiousMonkey on August 23, 2022, 03:22:29 pm
I am using a projector with an anamorphic lens to remove the black bars from widescreen movies. Recently I tried watching some foreign films with the latest build (29.86) and the subtitles are no longer visible. They remain in the black bars, which are not displayed on my screen. I tried multiple movies and multiple shift percentages but the subtitles remain at the bottom of the screen.

I made sure to select at least one widescreen movie that I have watched before, “Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon” in 4k just in case some movies don’t support shifting subtitles.
Title: Re: Subtitles not shifting
Post by: curiousMonkey on August 23, 2022, 05:12:13 pm
I tried Crouching Tiger with build 28 and the shifting works.
Title: Re: Subtitles not shifting
Post by: Hendrik on August 24, 2022, 04:49:19 am
What kind of subtitles are those? Text, or bitmap?

Also can you describe your video settings?
Title: Re: Subtitles not shifting
Post by: curiousMonkey on August 24, 2022, 07:41:29 am
I am using Red October MadVR. I assume the subtitles are text because they appear at the bottom of the screen by default. Only one of the movies I tested showed the subtitles in a different location for each character. Is there anything else I can use to identity the type of subtitle?
Title: Re: Subtitles not shifting
Post by: JimH on August 24, 2022, 07:58:55 am
Try setting video to JRVR.

You can use MC's On Screen Display to zoom in on any video and the setting will be remembered.
Title: Re: Subtitles not shifting
Post by: curiousMonkey on August 24, 2022, 08:00:40 am
Will I lose my MadVR settings when I change to JRVR?
Title: Re: Subtitles not shifting
Post by: mojave on August 24, 2022, 09:51:05 am
Will I lose my MadVR settings when I change to JRVR?
No, if you switch back to madVR you still have your settings.
Title: Re: Subtitles not shifting
Post by: Hendrik on August 24, 2022, 10:22:27 am
I don't think any subtitle behavior with madVR should've changed on our side. At least I can't think of anything else. All video development in MC29 was focused on JRVR.
Title: Re: Subtitles not shifting
Post by: curiousMonkey on August 24, 2022, 02:15:35 pm
Subtitle shift works fine in JRVR mode.
Title: Re: Subtitles not shifting
Post by: haggis999 on February 05, 2023, 09:22:48 am
After recently creating SRT subtitles and adding them to the associated video using MKVToolnix, I can confirm that Media Center (v30) still refuses to shift them if madVR is in use. As previously mentioned here, switching to JRVR resolves that issue (I'm happy to use JRVR, so that's not a problem for me).