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Cyberia · 12th August 2005, 23:36

We actually had this on the list at one point. It sounds like a great idea at first. But then I actually messed around with subtitles myself. What a mess.

They can come as text or bitmap formats. The bitmap formats must be converted to a text form using OCR. A program called SubRip does this, and it can directly extract from the Vobs.

Then you have to get VobSub and either hard-burn the subs in, or just mux them into an Avi (which again requires a special program, either AviMux, or VdubMod) or you could use an advanced format like MP4/OGM/whatever.

Now... about doing it in DGIndex.

It would be nice to have a one shot everything demuxer. As long as we are talking about the demuxing of the raw streams and not doing something TOTALLY outside of DGIndex's purpose (eg: OCR conversion)

Is Close-Captioning also considered a 'subtitle'? Or does it have yet another stream(s)?

You'll probably have to parse the IFO file to get languages, but this has the advantage that you can also get the AUDIO languages identified too.

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Cyberia Moderator Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Inside Posts: 718	We actually had this on the list at one point. It sounds like a great idea at first. But then I actually messed around with subtitles myself. What a mess. They can come as text or bitmap formats. The bitmap formats must be converted to a text form using OCR. A program called SubRip does this, and it can directly extract from the Vobs. Then you have to get VobSub and either hard-burn the subs in, or just mux them into an Avi (which again requires a special program, either AviMux, or VdubMod) or you could use an advanced format like MP4/OGM/whatever. Now... about doing it in DGIndex. It would be nice to have a one shot everything demuxer. As long as we are talking about the demuxing of the raw streams and not doing something TOTALLY outside of DGIndex's purpose (eg: OCR conversion) Is Close-Captioning also considered a 'subtitle'? Or does it have yet another stream(s)? You'll probably have to parse the IFO file to get languages, but this has the advantage that you can also get the AUDIO languages identified too.