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subreader: do not skip the first char of ASS fields. Without this change, fields that can be sometimes empty and sometimes not, such as the Effect field, are counted in an inconsistent way. Since the number of fields is used to find where the text starts, it leads to internal field arriving on the video. Bug reported anonymously on the users mailing list.

MPlayer's Dump Stream Formats
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Designed by Alex & Arpi

The file starts with a variable size header:
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32-bit  Stream format fourcc (MPVS or MPAS)
        MPVS = MPlayer Video Stream
        MPAS = MPlayer Audio Stream
8-bit   Demuxer type (AVI,MOV,ASF,REAL,...)
8-bit   Flags (marks  dumped headers)
        Values: 0x1:  WAVEFORMATEX
                0x2:  Audio extra codec data
                0x4:  BITMAPINFOHEADER
                0x8:  QT's ImageDesc
                0x16: indicates 32-bit chunk size before every data chunk
16-bit  Length of headers

There's strict rule in the follow-up of the codec-headers.
Depending on flags,

Data chunks:
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32-bit  Optional 32-bit chunk size
...     Data