[MPlayer-users] Converting closed captioning to subtitles

[Martin Collins]

On Thu, 4 Nov 2004 08:25:30 -0500 (EST)
eyagerlist at chartermi.net wrote:

> 60	63
> Hello
> 
> 70	72
> Goodbye
> 
> Would produce the subtitle "Hello" at the 00:01:00 mark during
> playback for 3 seconds and "Goodbye" for 2 seconds at the 00:01:10
> mark.
> 
> Is there any existing subtitle format similar to this?  The most
> important feature is to be able to time the subtitles relative to
> the beginning of the file instead of relative to each other.

 .srt goes like this:

1
01:46:29,500 --> 01:46:31,500
You told me once...

2
01:46:34,000 --> 01:46:36,000
this day would come.


  Martin