Syncing subtitles
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Notepad?
Some players allow you to time shift the audio by x milliseconds.
Subtitles are a pain, aren't they? I just found out today that they are image files and not plain text! So you end up in OCR territory.
Does your source not have the subtitles? Tsk. Tsk.
Notepad?
Some players allow you to time shift the audio by x milliseconds.
Subtitles are a pain, aren't they? I just found out today that they are image files and not plain text! So you end up in OCR territory.
Does your source not have the subtitles? Tsk. Tsk.
I've actually got the subs from the source DVD
I was actually trying to save some effort on my part, I wanted to put the Battlestar Galactica series that I have on DVD onto my NAS so I can then stream to the PS3. Rather then encode all the series I thought I'd just "get" the episodes, extract the subtitles from my DVDs and hey presto but with hind sight it might be just easier to process each DVD in turn. Started off as a good idea though
My first day ripping. This stuff is confusing. 
I did a lossless rip of my Behind Enemy Lines DVD. Subtitles show up fine for just the foreign bits.
I do the same with my Fellowship of the Ring DVD. But no subs? Where are they?!!
I've got 1 .ifo and 1 .vob
I think the BEL subs are "baked" into the video, FotR is different.
I did a lossless rip of my Behind Enemy Lines DVD. Subtitles show up fine for just the foreign bits.
I do the same with my Fellowship of the Ring DVD. But no subs? Where are they?!!
I've got 1 .ifo and 1 .vob
I think the BEL subs are "baked" into the video, FotR is different.
I used this http://www.videohelp.com/tools/Subrip to rip the subs.
The foreign subs are as far as I know effectively burned ie they are not part of the pic normally but always switched on and can also be ripped out if required.
The foreign subs are as far as I know effectively burned ie they are not part of the pic normally but always switched on and can also be ripped out if required.
I've got Fellowship of the Ring working. Only the forced subtitles appear now. 
I was using the wrong tool for the job.
Why do you need srt files? You can set the default subtitle stream in 'Re-author' mode and just ouput an (un)compressed 'movie only' backup.
I was using the wrong tool for the job.
Why do you need srt files? You can set the default subtitle stream in 'Re-author' mode and just ouput an (un)compressed 'movie only' backup.
Because I wanted to convert to Xvid/Divx then add the subtitles effectively as a stream so that I can turn them on/off when playing the movie on the PS3. Also uncompressed would take up a lot of disk space, each series of Battlestar is around 6 DVDs worth, then there's the initial mini and razor films.
To adjust timing of subs, use Subtitle Workshop - http://www.urusoft.net/products.php?cat=sw