"wrong Format"

[Kargor]

Well, I just tried to upload an srt file, and keep getting this message.

The file works fine when I play it, so I played around with some details. Changed the line endings from "DOS" (CR-LF) to "Unix" (LF), which didn't make a difference. Then I noticed that the last line in the file doesn't have a line-end at all, so I added one. No change either.

As it's an english file, I don't think there should be any "weird" characters in it. Still, I don't know what the encoding SHOULD be... it's just that the two most likely candidates, UTF-8 and Windows-1252 (which in turn is a superset of ISO 8859-1) are both supersets of ASCII so it shouldn't make a difference for english texts.

What ARE the precise requirements for an srt file to be accepted?

I did check the other recent thread, but they just solved their problem with not much of an explanation :-) Besides, it may or may not be the same problem here.

[Kerensky]

As long as the file follows strictly the subrip (.srt) format, should be fine.
The web should handle most encoding (UTF-8, ISO 8859-1, etc) but not Unicode (as Alex1969 pointed out).

The subrip format is:

<Line Number>
<HH:MM:SS,mmm> --> <HH:MM:SS,mmm>
<Text>
<Text>
...
<Text>
<Blank line>

The most common errors are:
1) The time code has "." instead of "," for milliseconds
2) The arrow it's "->" instead of "-->"
3) No blank line between the srt lines.

Also, subtitle needs to have at least 2 blank lines at the end.


The easiest way to solve this errors, it's to read the subtitle with some error tolerant subtitle app
(like Subtitle Workshop, Subtitle Edit or Transcript Annotations Cleaner) and just save it.

Edited October 4, 2011 by Kerensky

[Alex1969]

If the encoding of the srt file is Unicode, you get an error message, so you'll just have to save it as UTF-8 or ANSI.

[Deptford]

Hmm. I seem to be hit and miss here. This sub seems to be in the wrong format. Can you please troubleshoot this file?

http://www41.zippyshare.com/v/46740138/file.html

 

It runs in subtitle workshop and with the avi. But 'wrong format' when I upload

[Alice]

Apparently, some encoding problem. I saved it as UTF-8 and took the liberty to upload it on your behalf, crediting you, of course.
Hope you don't mind.

[Deptford]

No problem whatsover Alice.  I am trying not to be lazy.....but I don't understand how subs in a consistent format result in hits and misses. I uploaded a couple more, but now this one is being stubborn. Feel free to work your magic!

 

http://www30.zippyshare.com/v/99973566/file.html

[Alice]

This one, 4x08, has some syntax errors.
Are you familiar with SE?
If not, give it a try... download the portable version.

 

http://code.google.com/p/subtitleedit/downloads/list

 

When you open your sub, you'll see a list of all errors.

[Deptford]

Thanks Alice. I will using that link and correct my errors

[Deptford]

Alice - that SE programme is fantastic! Thanks, it worked!

[Alice]

Glad to hear that =D

Read all about it on this thread:

(all 14 pages =))) )