Is possible to use the SmartRipper's subtitle files in DVD Maestro?

[leopardone]

I'm bored to use 3 progs to rip the subtitles and convert them to a acceptable format for DVD Maestro.
Is possible to use the SmartRipper's subtitle files in DVD Maestro?
I've tried to find a answer in the board, but I wasn't lucky (or I'm blind ;) )
Any help?

Thx in advance :)

[s0nyguy]

I dont think anyone has come up with a better method yet.

I know it is possible in Scenarist NT. well it is less time consuming anyway.

[McPoodle]

It turns out that Maestro will accept a pure-text STL subtitle file in addition to the text+bitmaps SON format that MaestroSBT creates. This makes a conversion pretty easy. Go to http://www.geocities.com/mcpoodle43/Tools/index.html to download a command-line tool. Feed it the argument of the SRT file and it will create a STL file that you can import into Maestro (but not Scenarist or any other program--this format is Spruce-specific). Let me know if you have any questions.

--McPoodle

P.S. If someone is interested in writing something better, I've documented the STL format at http://www.geocities.com/mcpoodle43/DVDMaestro/stl_format.html. I also have a SRT and its converted STL at http://www.geocities.com/mcpoodle43/Tools/sample.srt and http://www.geocities.com/mcpoodle43/Tools/sample.stl.txt (Windows has a default association for .stl files, hence the .txt).

[guillep2k]

I know of someone who's working on it. He's really close to it. He's program will take the subtitles directly from the rip to a son file for DVD Maestro (and sst for Scenarist).

Guille

[azidkore]

I dunno if I got it right, but converting from subrip to Maestro is plain straight for me (SubRip 1.17.1).
Check "Rip subs as BMP", in output format select "DVD Maestro" (once the rip is finished) and that's it! You get tons of BMP, a .SON and a .SPF as result ready to be loaded in maestro.

Ironically, selecting Scenarist as output gives better results for Maestro than Maestro's. Maestro's output renders an ungly box arround the subs :-/

PS: BTW, Guille, para cuando soporte para MPEG2 en el SBT?!
Y de paso un sst2son standalone para CLI!!

[McPoodle]

DVDMaestro will only accept three formats of subtitles: .scr, .son, and .stl, while SmartRipper will only generate one format: .sub. The solution is to use SubRip instead of SmartRipper to rip your subtitles.

[zappppp]

i want to import chinese subtitle to dvd maestro using stl format but dvd maestro don't accept chinese character it only show ????. why?

im using windows xp english version

[zappppp]

maestro sbt also don't accept chinese character

[oddyseus]

stl format accepts greek characters, as long as they r unicode. Since greek is as foreign to english as chinese, I do believe that acepting them is a matter of font (unicode or not) and perhaps a small setting in the regional preferences about text recognition.