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15th April 2020, 04:15 | #1 | Link |
hlg-tools Maintainer
Join Date: Feb 2008
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Is Kate Still a Thing?
I've been investigating the most robust way to rip graphical PGS subtitles into Matroska. I'm in the mood to study spec sheets and write code. I want to be able to adjust scale and crop, after all. But I'd like to rip to a well-supported, royalty-free format. You can call it idealism, if you like.
So here's the rundown: 1. SRT - text only 2. ASS - doesn't support PNG and mkvmerge supposedly converts file attachments to be separate Matroska attachments. 3. USF - graphical support was never added. 4. PGS - proprietary, and I can't find any documentation saying Matroska officially supports this 5. Kate - supports text, graphics, and everything under the sun The problem I have with Kate is that I can't get anything with Kate subtitles in them to actually show up in either VLC or Kodi. Elephant's Dream is available with Kate subtitles and they don't show up even when I select them. I muxed my own that I converted from SRT using kateenc, and those don't appear, even though the language code shows up in the subtitle selection. Kate seems like a silver bullet for all subtitle use cases but nothing wants to show it. What gives? |
15th April 2020, 05:55 | #3 | Link | |
SuperVirus
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Antarctic Japan
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https://wiki.xiph.org/index.php?title=OggKate I stopped using VLC ages ago and I have no idea whether its recent builds include libkate |
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15th April 2020, 06:18 | #4 | Link |
Pig on the wing
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Finland
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Definitely use the PGS subs if you mux to Matroska. Works fine in any player that supports the container.
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