[MPlayer-users] Re: mencoder: encoding a B&W movie

[gabor]

On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 19:33, Rémi Guyomarch wrote:
> > This is completely off topic, but do you know how I can create good 
> > subtitles from vobsub subtitles ? I checked the -dumpmpsub option of 
> > mplayer, but is there a way to do it really fast (ie without having to 
> > play the whole movie) ?
> 
> I didn't find a way under *nix to produce reasonably good text
> subtitles from vobsubs. OCR *nix softwares seems either not suited to
> the task, not powerful enough or both.
> I'm extracting the vobsub subtitles and simply use them with the .ogm
> / .avi :
> 1) rip the DVD to harddisk with "mplayer -dvd 1 -dumpstream"
> 2) mount the DVD and copy the .ifo file
> 2) extract all vobsubs to one single file with something like :
> 
> for f in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ; do \
>     mencoder -ovc copy -oac copy -o /dev/null -sid $f -vobsubout sous-titres -vobsuboutindex $f -ifo vts_01_0.ifo stream.dump
> done
> 

if you can use windows ( i know, i know ) then use "subrip" (
www.doom9.org ) to convert vobsub => text_sub.

bye,
gabor
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