subtitles filter (hardsubs) error

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Summary of the bug:
When trying to burn (hardsubs) an srt with an mp4 I get the entire file in second 0. See image1.jpg
How to reproduce:

% ffmpeg  -i video.mp4 -vf "subtitles=subs_es.srt" output.mp4
ffmpeg version: 
ffmpeg -version
ffmpeg version N-83692-gb8a7dcbde2-static http://johnvansickle.com/ffmpeg/  Copyright (c) 2000-2017 the FFmpeg developers
built with gcc 5.4.1 (Debian 5.4.1-5) 20170205
configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --enable-static --disable-debug --disable-ffplay --disable-indev=sndio --disable-outdev=sndio --cc=gcc-5 --enable-fontconfig --enable-frei0r --enable-gnutls --enable-gray --enable-libass --enable-libfreetype --enable-libfribidi --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libopus --enable-librtmp --enable-libsoxr --enable-libspeex --enable-libtheora --enable-libvidstab --enable-libvo-amrwbenc --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enable-libwebp --enable-libx264 --enable-libx265 --enable-libxvid --enable-libzimg
libavutil      55. 47.100 / 55. 47.100
libavcodec     57. 81.100 / 57. 81.100
libavformat    57. 66.102 / 57. 66.102
libavdevice    57.  3.100 / 57.  3.100
libavfilter     6. 74.100 /  6. 74.100
libswscale      4.  3.101 /  4.  3.101
libswresample   2.  4.100 /  2.  4.100
libpostproc    54.  2.100 / 54.  2.100
d322e558b9264761f8c2e4febef88d17  ffmpeg-git-64bit-static.tar.xz
git: gb8a7dcbde2 built on 20170301

I did tried to changing the line breaks from Linux, to Windows. Also parsing the file with ffmpeg like

% ffmpeg -i subtitle.srt subtitle2.srt

Some result.

% file *srt
subs_es2.srt:    UTF-8 Unicode text, with CRLF, LF line terminators
subs_es.srt:     UTF-8 Unicode text
win_subs_es.srt: UTF-8 Unicode text, with CRLF line terminators

% md5sum *srt
73bbe474e4d9e80c25c00972fba44631  subs_es2.srt
21daf8dcced5a11b8ac16ed66e38f9f3  subs_es.srt
31f39ec370b6aa410da444f893eb01fb  win_subs_es.srt

Video from

% youtube-dl --format mp4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_aiFv6peDE
(md5: 4245c561290207d1df6f2ffdfecf1ba3 )

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subtitle file 1

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subtitle 2

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subtitle 3

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screenshot

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report

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mp4 file:
​http://www.mediafire.com/file/n4kfsk9mabrwxx4/Sturzenegger_on_Aerolineas_Argentinas_%28Argentina%27s_national_airline%29-j_aiFv6peDE.mp4

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Which program is able to read the subtitle file you attached?
How were the files created?

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Replying to cehoyos:

Which program is able to read the subtitle file you attached?
How were the files created?

VLC 2.2.3-37-g888b7e89 (current repo vlc on debian jessie) can read subs_es.srt and win_subs_es.srt.

---

sub_es.srt was created using ccsubs.com, selecting:
language: spanish
format: srt
url: ​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_aiFv6peDE
I did modify it a little bit because the website prepends an ad that makes the first line sub to overlap with the ad.
The edit was:
line 2 (first sentence) from:

00:00:00 --> 00:00:05

to

00:00:00,0 --> 00:00:01,0

line number 6 (second sentence) from:

00:00:00 --> 00:00:03

to

00:00:01 --> 00:00:03

(at first I thought this overlap was causing the issue, that's why I edited the file manually to fix it and re-try the burn)

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subs_es2.srt was created doing:

ffmpeg -i subs_es.srt subs_es2.srt

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win_subs_es.srt was created by doing

perl -p -e 's/\n/\r\n/' < subs_es.srt > win_subs_es.srt

(following this post: ​http://superuser.com/a/71509 )

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report for subs_es.srt

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report for win_subs_es.srt

[Lediff]

ok. The fix was to edit the file and change every line from

00:00:01 --> 00:00:03

to

00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:03,000

Now it works.
You can close this ticket.

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Could you provide the unedited, original file (with the overlapping ad)?

[Elon Musk]

Apparently OP is no more interested in this ticket.