[MPlayer-users] Re: Dumping CC subtitles

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 08:38:17PM -0500, Jonathan Rogers wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> ephemeron at softhome.net wrote:
> >You've had a bad day, right?  Please look at what I really wrote
> >above.  Even in my grammatically flawed English, I wasn't telling
> >*YOU* to RTFM.  *I* was referring to myself ("all I have to do").
> 
> No, I wasn't even in a bad mood; I just misunderstood you. I'm very 
> sorry for jumping to conclusions. I was too defensive. I read your 
> response several times, but I still got the wrong idea. I'll be more 
> careful next time. We really need the <sarcasm> tag; there just aren't 
> enough clues in prose to infer the tone of the speaker. Please forgive 
> me for jumping to conclusions.
> 
> It reminds me of a Simpsons episode in which Homer is angry at his boss 
> and dictates a nasty letter in a sarcastic tone. When read in a normal 
> tone, however, the letter sounds perfectly amicable except for one last 
> sentence, which was composed by Bart. I'm sure the Simpsons fans will 
> remember the episode.
> 
> By the way, did you mean that there are websites with just subtitles in 
> easy usable formats? That would be convenient.

Yep. Someone posted a rather thorough list of such sites a few days
ago. The one I'm familiar with is dvd.box.sk.

Rich