ANN: SubRip 1.50 b4

[bond]

hi, afaik it is supported theoretically to embed fonts in mp4, but i dont think any tool supports its (at least i dont know one. if any supports it, than propably mp4box)

[Carlu]

Hey guys. Im a newbie with subrip and this must be an answered question maybe but I couldn't find it anywhere. Anyway, when I finish the first line of my subtitle I keep getting this error:
Instead of "justice" I get "jus tice". And every word with the letter "t" gets me the same error. How can I correct this?

[LRN]

Use post-ocr correction (around the same menu where you save the subtitles at the end) with English language. Or you could make a simple replacement in any text editor: " t"->"t".
Or you could try to tweak OCR machine settings to be less sensitive to intervals between characters. I'm not sure there is an option for such thing though...

[Carlu]

Thanks, I did what you said and the problem was solved. In "Advanced Ocr Setup" I increased the "Space Width Setup" and that was it. But I have a problem with the "l" and the "i". Instead of "i", the program thinks its a "l". Any sugestion to correct this?

[LRN]

Had the same issue. You could try to make OCR less tolerant to character differences (big slider in Advanced OCR setup, with a range of 0..1000).

By the way, here's an update for TTXT Tools - fixes a bug with string length, like <... text="blah-blah,''blah-lah'HH">. I'm not sure how MP4box reacts on such broken (two H after lineend) strings, but it couldn't be good.

http://lrn.no-ip.info/home/subrip/TT...2.1_src_bin.7z

Now, my next idea is to make a feature like "drop shadow". It is perfectly possible with TTXT - i could just double every sub-title with different color and slightly adjusted position and place them into different layer. It's only one thing that bothers me: should i include this functionality into SubRip, or make a new TTXT Tool for it. Or don't do it and just leave SubRip alone?

[Carlu]

Yeah.. I adjusted the bar to 1000 and still the "i" gets replaced by the "l".. I have no idea how to solve this problem and its very difficult to correct the entire subtitle with it because its difficult to find the wrong replacements! Is there something Im missing?

[prubin]

After you rip all the subtitles to text, click on the "Use to Correct some Wrong Characters" button (green color) on the lower toolbar. Make sure you select the correct language, and select the "English Screwed" from the drop-down box.

Originally Posted by Carlu

Yeah.. I adjusted the bar to 1000 and still the "i" gets replaced by the "l"..

[GrofLuigi]

Originally Posted by Carlu

Yeah.. I adjusted the bar to 1000 and still the "i" gets replaced by the "l".. I have no idea how to solve this problem and its very difficult to correct the entire subtitle with it because its difficult to find the wrong replacements! Is there something Im missing?

A computer isn't able to sort out the differences between capital i and lowercase l because they don't exist in many fonts - they are physically identical. That would require a complex knowledge of the language (English in this case). Because of that, many programs that deal with subtitles have this "post OCR correction". Look it up and try to use it in SubRip, Subtitle Workshop and others...

GL

[LRN]

Good solution is to use fonts like Arial for subtitle rendering, as they have identical (or almost identical) "I" and "l".

[LRN]

http://lrn.no-ip.info/home/subrip/Su...beta_4c_bin.7z - binaries
http://lrn.no-ip.info/home/subrip/Su..._4c_src_bin.7z - sources + binaries
http://lrn.no-ip.info/home/subrip/TT...0.3_src_bin.7z
Fixed major TTXT color bug. I wonder why noone reported it . This bug causes first text line to be custom (not DVD native) color (white by default) even if "use native DVD color" option is enabled.
Also i changed versionstr, now window title and about dialog shows proper "1.50 beta 4c" version string.
New TTXT Tools version features new tool - TTXT_resize. Allows you to change positioning info. If you resize original DVD image (you're making RIP with reduced resolution or it's just anamorthic and requires vertical resize), subtitle positions will not fit (i tried to RIP anamorphic video, and height change from 576 to 400 was enough for subtitles to disappear completely). Resizes horizontally and vertically by percentage. Could round floating point numbers up or down (down is default; maybe i'll change that later, for my first use of this tool i had to use up-rounding). Could resize textboxes or just move them (default). Resizing textboxes could cause some subtitles to be crop'ed if you didn't changed font size too (TTXT_resize does not changes font size; i thought about this feature though).
Fixed bug with escape sequences (sometimes some tools did not used escapes).
All TTXT tools now support '-' instead of filename to read/write from/to stdin/stdout. Pretty useless - i tried to write another tool for mass-processing (whould have use findfirst/next/close, spawnv and child process stdout redirect) and failed.

---EDIT @ 15.09.2007 10:31 GMT
Silently updated 4c archives (fixes another annoying glitch). Redownload them if you did so before now.

---EDIT @ 27.10.2007 19:18 GMT

Silently updated TTXT tools v0.3 archive, now compiled with /MT instead of /MD.

[pcjco04]

Hi,

When saving a subtitle file, SubRip proposes a default name based on the name of VOB file and on the language (vts_01_0.English.srt for example).

But, when there are some non ANSI characters (UNICODE), the default name is always NewFile.srt.

Regards.

[LRN]

By the way, i think it would be good to remind you that current SubRip developer is ai4spam, and that ai4spam is busy, and will be busy indefinitely long. While i am just fixing all kind of mess i created by starting this "TTXT format export" feature in SubRip, and i will not touch anything else in SubRip.
Do not be afflicted if your feature requests/bug reports will not be satisfied for a...year? Two years?

[Teebeeke]

Can anyone tell me why i have this weird looking chars with every sub i try ?
I never had this problem, but i formatted my pc and installed the latest subrip version.

[LRN]

Looks like some sort of...i don't know...bug? I mean, subtitles are fine, and SubRip analyzes them fine (no corruption at that stage), but shows them wrong. And there's a strange corruption in top-left corner.
Try SubRip v1.50b4c. I can't give you any other counsel than that...

[Teebeeke]

I got the old 1.40b3 from a backup dvd i had and there the subs are shown just fine.
Gonna download a previous version from current one later on.

[manusse]

Have a look at here.

[Teebeeke]

Originally Posted by roli_bark

Turning OFF both "Use VOB's subtitle map" & "Use IDX's file offsets" worked !!!

But only after I erased the SubRip.ini file from SubRip home directory [alike starting from a scrath new install ]

Very strange .... but at least it works now !
Thanks 'ai4spam' !

Turning off both those options seems to work here also

[ericf]

I have this problem:
the character matrix seems to make mistakes with n't.

This is what I get a lot of the time:
arert doesert hadrt hasrt strt wasrt won'th(worth).

I cannot find anything in the matix that would cause this. I keep deleting all characters involved but the problem keeps coming up.

Any suggestions?
Thanks

ericf

[gwaitsi]

just tried 1.5 to do my first dvd conversion.

very cool man....

only thing i found. nero recode 3 does not like the .srt files from it.
not sure if it is a recode problem or subrip problem.

question, which is better and why .srt or .ttxt?

thanks

[LRN]

Nero Recode suxxors. At least Nero Recode 2. I don't know, maybe they fixed all bugs in 3rd version, but i doubt it.
SRT is a native SubRip subtitles format. It was developed along with initial SubRip versions, afaik. Thus when it comes to 'is this srt file of proper format?' you should look at SubRip's output - this is the real thing, not something Nero Recode thinks it should be. Well, there MAY be some kind of bug in 1.5 srt output, but not likely.
TTXT is an implementation (by GPAC project) of 3GPP Timed Text format. Or, to be precise, it is a temporary format that is used to feed Timed Text into MP4Box (part of GPAC toolset), where it is transformed to real (binary) Timed Text (as a side effect, you cannot demux Timed Text from mp4 - well, you can, but it will be in binary form, which is pretty useless at the moment).
It is possible to transform subtitles from TTXT to SRT (only theoretically, there is no tool for that afaik) and back (MP4Box does that), but SOME information that HAS to be stored in TTXT, cannot be stored in SRT and may only be obtained from DVD. Thus if you are going to mux subtitles into mp4 container via mp4box, you may consider using TTXT from the very beginning. It is not always simple - a few things may be necessary to be done with TTXT file after you rip subtitles into it, like time shift, textbox resize, split; i created a few tools for that, but they are buggy and lame. And TTXT subtitles support is not the most widespread feature around.
If you don't know anything about mp4 or mp4box, they you should stick to SRT.