[MPlayer-users] Subtitles

[antoine]

Pablo Morales wrote:

>Hi there guys.
>
>I was playing with subtitles tools, the transcode tools, ocr stuff and so
>on, for one CD,  there is no problem, I can extract them , convert them to
>.srt,
>My problem arose when I tryed to  encode  2 CDs, I do not see the way to
>create the .srt for the second movie, the second half , I just cannot split
>the srt file in two.
>
>I was thinking that maybe I could split the vob file in two, then extract
>the subtitles for each one, and then encode the vobs  one by one, but I do
>no know if that will work . I do not use windows at home, so I'm not
>interested in any Win$$ Appz that could do that., I think that there must be
>a methood under *NIX.
>
I am going to start work on a gui to do this quite soon. Most of the 
tools are there in transcode... I just have to get my C++ up to scratch! 
It could probably be done with something else but I want to make a KDE 
app. I should be able to tell you how to do it exactly if I am going to 
do this... but still haven't really got my stuff together. A REALLY 
dodgy solution for the moment is:
-download dvdrip
-set it up to do what you want (dvdrip is an excellent gui for this sort 
of thing, but lacks converting from vobsub to anything), i.e., get the 
subtitles chopped properly
-look at the transcode CL that it produces in the log (you will actually 
have to run the entire encode, and rip the subs after, because it needs 
the info from the runs. You will be able to get that info from somewhere 
else so this is just to work out how to does it)
-use transcode to do it...
Cheers
Antoine
I have heard that subrip from windows runs really well under wine. I was 
going to port it, but it uses a Delphi windows-only library that has 
only half been ported to kylix, and I couldn't be bothered porting the 
other things it needed... I know Delphi pretty well but am not really 
interested in it...