[MPlayer-users] subtitle dump

[Ed Fisher]

On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 07:23:22PM +0200, Mihai RUSU spake thus:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> 
> > Vobsubs are bitmaps. What do you want mplayer to do, OCR them for you?
> > :)
> >
> 
> Comming from mplayer I would not be surprised ;) heh, sorry for that I
> really did not know that. Then if I may ask: how are made those text
> file subtitles ? Like you said, somebody types them ? Or is there a tool
> for them ?
> 
> PS: it seems I have a lot of missing pieces of information in the
> multimedia arena :-\

Best choice for a linux tool is subtitleripper:
http://subtitleripper.sourceforge.net/

Good luck.

-gleam

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