McPoodle
12th August 2003, 08:53
I've gotten a number of requests for the feature, so I thought I'd announce it here: Version 2.7 of SCC Tools can now convert closed captions in SCC format into subtitles (in SubRip, MicroDVD, SAMI, PowerDivX, Sub-Station Alpha, or Advanced Sub-Station formats). The tools can be downloaded from http://www.geocities.com/mcpoodle43/SCC_TOOLS/SCC_TOOLS.ZIP (http://www.geocities.com/mcpoodle43/SCC_TOOLS/ccasdi.exe for just CCASDI, http://www.geocities.com/mcpoodle43/SCC_TOOLS/DOCS/SCC_TOOLS.HTML for the documentation). I had to update all of the tools, since I found a bug in the 2.6 timecode algorithms.
To convert an SCC file, run CCASDI with the argument "-s" (i.e. CCASDI -s infile.scc). If you leave off the output file argument, you get a SubRip file with the extension .srt. If you do provide the name of an output file, I use the extension to determine what format to export to (.srt, .sub, .smi, .psb, .ssa, or .ass). The conversion should support every bit of formatting that each of these subtitle types can handle.
Finally, I'd like to take a moment to thank Gabest for putting his source code online (as if the list of subtitle formats didn't give that away), which is not to say that converting C++ to Perl is all that easy.
To convert an SCC file, run CCASDI with the argument "-s" (i.e. CCASDI -s infile.scc). If you leave off the output file argument, you get a SubRip file with the extension .srt. If you do provide the name of an output file, I use the extension to determine what format to export to (.srt, .sub, .smi, .psb, .ssa, or .ass). The conversion should support every bit of formatting that each of these subtitle types can handle.
Finally, I'd like to take a moment to thank Gabest for putting his source code online (as if the list of subtitle formats didn't give that away), which is not to say that converting C++ to Perl is all that easy.