Feedback on ClipFlair Studio application empty lines at end of SRT are parsed as caption rows  Viewed 107444 time(s), 5 post(s), 5/9/2013 1:04:34 AM - by Admin

the issue is not only with blank lines at the end of the file, but in between caption blocks too, that is

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00:00:11,086 --> 00:00:13,078

"Good morning, Columbus."

2

00:00:15,049 --> 00:00:18,805

My mother's eternal words, reminding

me America was already discovered,

will result in two extra rows at time 0:0 (since it found no time entry) that end up at the top of the captions grid

obviously need to make the SRT parsing code I had written back in the time of LeViS project (http://LvS.codeplex.com) a bit more clever with the extra empty lines (when saving I remove such lines, but other software don't remove empty rows at the end of a captions entry, so I need to address this at loading too)

this should be fixed now, SRT import ignores extra empty rows at the end of the SRT file or in between caption blocks in the file

also made sure we never output mixed CR/CRLF line terminators (that is both Unix and DOS/Windows style), only CRLF, cause it might confuse some third party programs at import

NOTE that when one has empty lines in a caption, they are output as a single space char (not totally empty) because the SRT format didn't support that case well. I think some other software output a "." or similar character in such case instead of an empty line. This is mostly important when you have say 3 rows in a caption with a blank one in between

So in case you have SRT from other software that happens to have empty rows in the middle of a caption block, can add a space char or some other char (say .) to make those lines non-empty and let the SRT get imported correctly

attaching some test cases

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