Help with a subtitle format change

[Hibbs]

I have subtitle files with extension .txt containing records in this format

00:00:19:So you don't return.|- Then I'll not take the money.

Media player classic displays these fine, I assume with a default fixed display period.

How do I convert these to .srt or somesuch so that avi to vob software will include a displayable subtitle stream?

Thanks, Hibbs

[poisondeathray]

You can just right click and rename the extension manually .txt=>.srt (these are text based subs and have no format settings, unlike SSA, SSA subs or image based subs)

[setarip_old]

@poisondeathray

Hi!

I don't believe that simply changing the extender of the example given by "Hibbs" from ".txt" to ".srt" will solve the problem, as there are some specific requirements for .SRT format, as per the information at the following link:

http://www.matroska.org/technical/specs/subtitles/srt.html

SRT is perhaps the most basic of all subtitle formats.

It consists of four parts, all in text..

1. A number indicating the which subtitle it is in the sequence.
2. The time that the subtitle should appear on the screen, and then disappear.
3. The subtitle itself.
4. A blank line indicating the start of a new subtitle.



1
00:02:17,440 --> 00:02:20,375
Senator, we're making
our final approach into Coruscant.

[poisondeathray]

@setarip_old,

I assumed they were already proper format, since they are displayed correctly in MPC. If they were not in proper format, I don't think subs would be displayed at all...



@Hibbs,

If just renaming the extension doesn't work, use subtitle workshop to export as .srt



Cheers

[Hibbs]

Thanks all, subtitle workshop converts to .srt format fine, I was puzzled where the display duration would come from, it simply leaves it on display until the time of the next subtitle, as shown below.
.txt
00:00:19:So you don't return.|- Then I'll not take the money.
00:00:23:Okay, I'll think it is|Loan to you.
.srt

5
00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:23,000
So you don't return.
- Then I'll not take the money.

6
00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:27,000
Okay, I'll think it is
Loan to you.


Thanks again, Hibbs.