[MPlayer-users] Subtitle files dumping

Mario J. Barchéin Molina mbarchein at yahoo.es
Wed Mar 20 23:36:02 CET 2002


> > IIRC subtitles on DVDs are stored as images, thus converting them
> > to text format would require OCR technologies.
>
> 	How are these subtitle files from e.g. dvd.box.sk generated?
> Are they 'hand-made'?

They are generated using subtitle rip programs. They effectively make 
an OCR with the subtitle images and convert them into text. 

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