Pasting subs??? Edit mystery/problem [SOLVED]

[Opara]

I have translated a bunch of subtitles in my time, every time I did this was that I downloaded subs in English and then just translated them in notepad and saved as filename: "movie.srt".
Worked every time.

Now I translated one documentary and when I play the video with subtitle in that folder bsplayer get's an error message "error occured in application".
The video plays fine without subtitle and all other videos play fine with subtitles.

When I play the subtitle before I translate it, it plays fine. I don't know does it have to do something with the captions, but all the other subs with captions work fine for me.

I don't know what's wrong, help???

[BSPeter]

If the original sub is playing without problems, there must be an error of some sort in the translated file.
Can you upload/attach that sub (or a sample of it) so that we can test.
It is text-based (.srt) so the file size will be fairly limited.

[Opara]

Originally Posted by BSPeter

Can you upload/attach that sub (or a sample of it) so that we can test.

I tried to upload subtitles to this forum but I keep getting "invalid file" error message.

Pic don't help but here they are:

English


Translated

[BSPeter]

Can't you upload the offensive file as a .zip-file?

[Opara]

Oh, I thought I can upload a .rar file but it seems I can't.

Here it is:

[BSPeter]

I've meanwhile tested your files.
The translated file did not cause an error in BS.Player, but it simply wasn't recognized as a subtitle-file.
I've looked a bit better and then I saw (what I could and should have also seen from the images posted by you earlier) that, whereas a correct srt file uses --> as "separator" to indicate the time that a sub-line should be displayed ...

00:01:39,619 --> 00:02:40,950
display this sub-line from ... to ...
 
00:02:46,359 --> 00:02:48,850
and show this sub-line from ... to ...

... your translated file has -> (a single hyphen instead of two).
When I simply generally replaced "->" by "-->" using Notepad and tried the translated file again, it was shown without any problem!!

(Sometimes a solution is so simple and it really is "staring you in the face",
but nevertheless you simply don't see it, like I also didn't see it at first. )