Problem with ASS Subtitles

[bronze13]

Leider handelt es sich um eine sehr geschwätzige Doku: 1250 Untertitel! Da wäre es kaum machbar, jeden händisch zu positionieren.

[Carsten]

Deswegen eventuell über den Umweg ASS->Interop. Da kann man das einfache oben/unten/rechts/links für die Erstellung nutzen, und notfalls dann im XML noch feinjustieren. Aber bei dem Aufwand wird man nicht ohne Kompromisse auskommen.

Probier' mal, ob Du eine der letzten Versionen installiert bekommst. Dann sollte das zumindest erstmal grundsätzlich gehen mit ASS.

[carl]

bronze13 hatte gestern Probleme, die 2.16.64 auf einem neuen Windows-PC zu installieren.

could not open file for writing with C:\Users\MEINNAME\AppData\Local\dcpomatic2\2.16\config.xml.tmp

Komisch; vielleicht könnten wir den Inhalt von "C:\Users\MEINNAME\AppData\Local\dcpomatic2\2.16" sehen.

[bronze13]

The folders \dcpomatic2 and \2.16 did not exist, so I created them. Then I created an empty file config.xml.tmp. All this did not fix the problem.
When installing the 2.17... version I got similar errors.
See screenshots

[bronze13]

Here are the contents of the folders.

[bronze13]

As you can see there is no folder "2.18"

[bronze13]

OS is Windows 11 Pro
Version 22H2, installed 07.09.2023
Build 22621.2283

[carl]

Those folders and the .tmp file should all be created automatically by DCP-o-matic. I will add some more error checking in the code that does it.

[bronze13]

ALL-CLEAR SIGNAL[/b}
I apologize for my stupid post. The fix is easy as pie:
When starting first time after installation d-o-m installs the a.m. folders and some needed files. To do this it needs admin rights. Right click, mark this option, and: behold! All is well.

In the .17-version ass-subs seem to be shown correctly, at least in my test case.
I will try with the festival film.
Anyway, thanks so much for helping!

[carl]

I'm glad you worked it out! Though, we should fix this, as I don't know why it would need admin rights to create those files. Perhaps something changed in Windows 11.