Hi,
On Mon, 24 Jun 2019 14:10:49 +0100
mick crane <mick.cr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2019-06-24 11:32, Michael Lange wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Mon, 24 Jun 2019 09:23:15 +0100
> > mick crane <mick.cr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > (...)
> >> > which seems to work well here).
> >> > The feature set this app offers looks rather impressive, obviously
> >> > it's far superior to similar programs that come with debian. And it
> >> > can create
> >> > good looking vobsub subtitles in less than one minute.
> > (...)
> >>
> >> That seems quick.
> >> Any idea what this software does to "burn" text over video ?
> >> extracting frames then combining with text for duration in .srt file
> >> and putting them back would take ages I would imagine.
> >
> > it does not "burn" them, but creates separate vobsub subtitles (a .sub
> > plus an .idx file), that's the point :)
> > I can add these to an .mkv file along with an .srt or .ass subtitle
> > track, so I can pick which one to use depending on the player. Or I
> > can even turn them off.
> >
>
> So it sort of merges the streams.
> I thought you were supposed never to cross the streams.
no, SubtitleEdit actually does not know about the video stream. You can
just open the .srt or .ass or whatever subtitle file and then convert it
to the vobsub .sub/.idx pair, just like you can convert an .srt file
to .ass with gnome-subtitles or other similar programs. These can be added
as optional subtitle stream in an .mkv container or just stored separately
next to the video, just like .srt or other text subtitles.
Regards
Michael
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