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Can't activate a segment - they slip upwards

Daniel Hug

Maybe I am doing something very silly, but (using the new subtitling plugin) I can't select a segment anymore.

Here's what happened so far:

1) Installed plugins according to wiki.

2) Imported srt file.

3) Opened srt file for translation.

As I click in to a segment to activate it, it does activate, but then Studio activates the next segment above, then the next one etc. until we arrive at segment #84, 55, 39, 8 or 1. This is new behavior. I translated this file with Studio before (the availability of the plugin) and it behaved normally.

There is no way to select a segment using the Editor view (unless I content myself with editing segment 84, 55, 39, 8 or 1).

I can select a segment using the preview window. In about 75% of all cases, the active segment will jump up one (I select segment x and after a split-second of staying on segment x, segment x-1 will become active), but that's it. So I can select a segment and then enter a translation in the editor window.

[EDIT: As I drag the tab of the preview window, the segment that is displayed is activated both in the preview list of segments as well as in the editor. I can't type into the editor right away, most likely because the preview window has the focus, but I can click into the active segment in the editor window and it will stay selected.]

That of course is not really workable and I wonder whether I am doing something wrong? Does anybody else experience this?

Daniel
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    Unknown said:
    Maybe I am doing something very silly, but (using the new subtitling plugin) I can't select a segment anymore.

    I did it. Unknowingly, but I did it: The file I received had the ending .srt, but it was indeed an .sbv file (downloaded from YouTube). So the file (which looks really similar to an .srt file) contained overlapping time codes, which I learned is not supported by .srt. 

    Thank you for your quick help!

    And here's how to make a .sbv file downloaded from YouTube work: Load with SubtitleEdit, define "Minimum display time between subtitles" to anything >0 (SE suggests 24 milliseconds), and SE will remove all overlap and insert the defined amount of space between the subtitles. At least for us this works, because we don't need to get an .sbv file.

    Daniel
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    Unknown said:
    Maybe I am doing something very silly, but (using the new subtitling plugin) I can't select a segment anymore.

    I did it. Unknowingly, but I did it: The file I received had the ending .srt, but it was indeed an .sbv file (downloaded from YouTube). So the file (which looks really similar to an .srt file) contained overlapping time codes, which I learned is not supported by .srt. 

    Thank you for your quick help!

    And here's how to make a .sbv file downloaded from YouTube work: Load with SubtitleEdit, define "Minimum display time between subtitles" to anything >0 (SE suggests 24 milliseconds), and SE will remove all overlap and insert the defined amount of space between the subtitles. At least for us this works, because we don't need to get an .sbv file.

    Daniel
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