Only one sub is displayed

[aj]

Binary package hint: totem

Only one subtitle is displayed. This is an issue in when two conversation are going at the same time or if the content of a sign is shown as subtitle.
In these cases only the subtitle for the sign is shown or maybe only the conversation of unimportant people is shown.

Mplayer solves this issue by adding another subtitle line above the current one. This is also done in a different color.

This feature has definitely to be adapted by totem or else it is rendered useless for most anime fans.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/totem-gstreamer
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: totem-gstreamer 2.24.3-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: totem
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic x86_64

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Unfortunately we can't fix it, because your description didn't include enough information. You may find it helpful to read "How to report bugs effectively" http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html. We'd be grateful if you would then provide a more complete description of the problem.
 We have instructions on debugging some types of problems. http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProcedures
At a minimum, we need:
1. the specific steps or actions you took that caused you to encounter the problem,
2. the behavior you expected, and
3. the behavior you actually encountered (in as much detail as possible).
4. please also take an screenshot of the mplayer window showing the 2 subtitles.
Thanks!

[aj (aj-xqone-deactivatedaccount)]

Ok since this bugreport lacks important information I will try to to add useful information.

reproduce Problem:
- watch an anime with english subtitles
- go to a scene where maybe a Japanese sign is translated via subtitle and a conversation is going or
- go to a scene where there are 2 conversations going - but only the unimportant one is displayed

Problem description:
- only 1 subtitle is displayed
- you may read the signs translation but are not able to follow the conversation as it's subtitles are not displayed as long the signs translation is shown

expected behavior:
- if two or more subtitles are supposed to be shown the same time - every subtitle text gets its own space to be displayed
- this way you can read the signs translation or the unimportant conversation and still follow the important conversation

This is a serious issue as this sort of scenes are very common in most anime. I have included an extracted subtitled where this very situation occurs at 14:49 min. In this scene the teachers dialogue is displayed but the main characters one isn't shown at all.

This one is displayed:
Dialogue: 0,0:14:49.74,0:14:58.29,SD_Overlap,,0000,0000,0000,,{\be1}{\an8}Usually, these can easily be mistaken for one another, so please take care.

And these get dropped
Dialogue: 0,0:14:50.66,0:14:52.78,Default,Saionji,0000,0000,0000,,{\be1}If you have enough time to study from a book,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:52.78,0:14:55.58,Default,Saionji,0000,0000,0000,,{\be1}put some effort into getting to know the real Katsura-san.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:55.58,0:14:57.75,Default,Saionji,0000,0000,0000,,{\be1}You like Katsura-san, don't you?

[Ramesh Rajaby (mesh89)]

I second this. Being an anime fan, this can be very annoing, for instance when two conversation are going at the same time, or a japanese sign is being translated, and at the same time someone is speaking, totem just shows one subtitle, dropping the others.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the bug should be sent to bugzilla.gnome.org by somebody having the issue if that's still a bug in jaunty

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. A new version of totem is available in both Lucid and Maverick and we are wondering if this is still reproducible in any of those versions, May you please test and give us of feedback about it? Thanks in advance.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.