I recently made a video that I wrote subtitles for - my first time
writing them myself. When I tried to burn them into the video using
ffmpeg, it gave me the following:
[Parsed_subtitles_0 @ 0x554ed40] Shaper: FriBidi 1.0.1 (SIMPLE)
[Parsed_subtitles_0 @ 0x554ed40] Unable to open comments.srt
[AVFilterGraph @ 0x5528140] Error initializing filter 'subtitles' with
args 'comments.srt:force_style=Fontsize=26'
Error reinitializing filters!
Failed to inject frame into filter network: Invalid data found when
processing input
Error while processing the decoded data for stream #0:0
After pulling my hair out trying to figure out why it couldn't find
comments.srt when it was plainly right there, I gave up & tried a
different tool. It told me that there was an error in the SRT file
structure. Sure enough, I'd forgotten to include the milliseconds:
1
00:00:31 --> 00:00:35
My text was here.
was supposed to be
1
00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:35,000
My text was here.
After I added ,000 to every timestamp in the SRT file, ffmpeg worked
perfectly.
My suggestion is simple - instead of having ffmpeg report that it is
unable to open the file, make it say something like 'invalid subtitle
structure' or 'fix your subtitle file stupid'. ;) Really, just change
the wording to be something relevant to what is wrong in order to make
it easier to figure out what's wrong.
Jim
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