Audio padding issue about mpvacious

[tomtung]

I also found this behavior really confusing: padding is only respected for single-line selection, but somehow not for multiple-line selection. I needed to spend some time debugging to figure out what was going on.

When you override timings set in the subtitles, mpvacious assumes that your subs are incorrectly timed, and disables the padding

I think this behavior is only expected when the user directly sets the timestamps without referencing the exact timing of the current subs. I only use shift+s and shift+e when the subs are already correctly timed, and I need to select a range of them. In this case, this behavior is definitely a surprise for me.

If you want to create a card with padding, you shouldn't use shift+s and shift+e and instead use only c and shift+l,shift+h

This is probably the best option. I didn't try it before because it seemed less intuitive than shift+s and shift+e.

Alternatively, just locally comment out these lines.

mpvacious/subs2srs.lua

Lines 331 to 333 in 178674f

	if subs_observer.user_altered() then
	return 0.0
	end

[Geniusssmit]

Motokare no Yuigonjou 2022 S01 1080p WEB-DL AAC H.264-MagicStar.zip
comparison, padding set to 1.0 (1 second)

[Geniusssmit]

difference is exactly 2 seconds

[tatsumoto-ren]

Padding is only applied when timings are chosen automatically. When you set them manually, no padding is applied.

[Geniusssmit]

c - Interactive subtitle selection. is automatic?

[tatsumoto-ren]

If you want to create a card with padding, you shouldn't use shift+s and shift+e and instead use only c and shift+l,shift+h

[Geniusssmit]

I see, difference is not obvious tbh, but ok, also do you know why it cuts audio, even if subtitle is still shown. I ended up with 1.0 padding, but thats quite big

[tatsumoto-ren]

When you override timings set in the subtitles, mpvacious assumes that your subs are incorrectly timed, and disables the padding since applying it would mean potentially grabbing extra parts of the dialogue that you don't want on your card.

[tatsumoto-ren]

I ended up with 1.0 padding

Could be your subtitle's timings, or the amount of padding you set in subs2srs.conf.

[Geniusssmit]

When you override timings set in the subtitles, mpvacious assumes that your subs are incorrectly timed, and disables the padding since applying it would mean potentially grabbing extra parts of the dialogue that you don't want on your card.

I understand that. I mean I check, timings are perfect, even without overriding mpvacious cuts before subtitle disappears.

[Geniusssmit]

that's why I'm using 1.0 padding to compensate it

[Geniusssmit]

but yeah, anyway "c" key works just fine.

[Geniusssmit]

Bandicam 2022-11-14 19-57-05-276-1.zip
Please watch, it cuts 4 seconds earlier, even with "c"

[tatsumoto-ren]

that's why I'm using 1.0 padding to compensate it

You're better off fixing the timings then.

Please watch, it cuts 4 seconds earlier, even with "c"

On the video you still set the timing manually.

[Geniusssmit]

that's why I'm using 1.0 padding to compensate it

You're better off fixing the timings then.

Please watch, it cuts 4 seconds earlier, even with "c"

On the video you still set the timing manually.

I mean, as you can see, automatically it sets end timing to 07m30s200ms, but when I fix it manually, I set it when the line ends, it ends around 07m34s186ms

[Geniusssmit]

I think there is something wrong with the subtitle file, do you know how to deal with cases like this? 2 exact same lines with different timings
[MagicStar] Motokare no Yuigonjou EP04 [WEBDL] [1080p].zip

[tatsumoto-ren]

This could help. You can also open the file in vim and remove the redundant lines.