Fast Closed captions extraction tool

[cfsmp3]

Hi,

I've just ported McPoodle's excellent SCC_RIP to C, and optimized it a bit. The new tool takes less than 1 minute to extract the closed captions from a 1 Gb MPEG file in Windows, and a few seconds in Linux (the reason being that CPU usage in Windows is around 10% while Linux is happy to let it take more CPU).

Anyway, it will be available (both binaries and source code) in Sourceforge as soon as it's approved, but if someone wants to test it meanwhile, I'll be happy to share the stuff.

I know for sure that it produces identical binaries than SCC_RIP for DVD input files and Dish TV input files. I haven't been able to check ReplayTV as I don't have samples, but the code is trivial so it might work.

Anyone interested drop me an email ( cfsmp3 at gmail ).

[johner23]

@cfsmp3

Very interesting tool. :)

1) It's able to work in some dvd's that contains closed captions? Once in past I found 1 dvd that had only 1 closed caption. Not any kind of subtitle or something, just 1 language closed caption in it.

2) Does it have any GUI for novices or we need to do it using CLI for work?

Thanks for your work and good idea about that subject. :)

Best regards

johner

[cfsmp3]

@cfsmp3

1) It's able to work in some dvd's that contains closed captions? Once in past I found 1 dvd that had only 1 closed caption. Not any kind of subtitle or something, just 1 language closed caption in it.


Yes, just feed it the VOBs and it will extract the closed captions for you.

@cfsmp3

2) Does it have any GUI for novices or we need to do it using CLI for work?

CLI. But it just takes one parameter (the input file name).

@cfsmp3

Thanks for your work and good idea about that subject. :)


Thanks. All credit must go to McPoodle, though... He wrote the original tool and he's the guy that really knows about closed caption. I just rewrote his code in C and optimized it.