[MPlayer-users] Extract .srt file from DVD

[Muhammad Ichsan]

On 8/23/06, Muhammad Ichsan <ichsan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/22/06, Rickard Närström <rickard.narstrom at gmail.com> wrote:
> > tisdag 22 augusti 2006 14:27 skrev Muhammad Ichsan:
> > > Dear All,
> > >
> > > Is there any way to extract subtitle file from DVD with mplayer or
> > > mencoder? I've been googling but nothing found. I would like to
> > > extract directly from DVD than saving the vobs to my disk first. Is
> > > there any way?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> >
> > No MPlayer can't extract it to .srt, but idx/sub, ex:
> > $ mplayer dvd://1 -dumpsub -vobsubout vobsub
> >
> > This will creata a vobsub.idx and a vobsub.sub --- Note: this is image data --
> > each subtitle is stored as a image.
> >
> >
> >
> > To convert vobsub to SubRipper (.srt) I usually use subtittleripper
> > http://subtitleripper.sourceforge.net/
> >
> > There are tre tools you use to convert the subtitles:
> > 1. vobsub2pgm -- this vill extract all images from the .sub file and create
> > one file for each image.
> >
> > 2. pgm2txt -- this will convert the images to text using OCR (some words may
> > end up misspelled)
> >
> > 2. srttool -- this will put all the txt files togetter to one .srt file.
> >
> > (timestemps are in step 1 extrakted form the .idx file in an other file, to be
> > merged to the finnaly .srt file in step 3)
> >
> >
> > More info:
> > http://bunkus.org/dvdripping4linux/en/single/index.html#subtitles_text
> >
> > thay use transcode and subtitle2pgm instead of mplayer and vobsub2pgm... the
> > other steps are the same.
> > ____________________________
>
> Thanks a lot. I'm currenty in step of converting image to text with
> gocr. But what should I answer to these lines (my comment is in #):
>
> # this should be X
> @@@@@......@@@@.
> .@@@@.....@@@@@.
> ..@@@@....@@@@..
> ..@@@@...@@@@...
> ...@@@@..@@@@...
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> The upper char was not recognized. Enter correct ASCII char, "string"
> or 4 to 8 digit hex unicode:
>
> ===================
> # This  should be "rt"
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> The upper char was not recognized. Enter correct ASCII char, "string"
> or 4 to 8 digit hex unicode:
>
> Thanks a lot
>

Oh I think I should answer x for the first and "rt" for the second.