On Tue Sep 24 12:28:42 EDT 2013, dinkypumpkin wrote:
The SRT files don't carry any sort of alignment or positioning
information, so it's left up to the media player how to display
subtitles.
Since the subs are shown "centered" on-line, in the iPlayer
embedded Adobe Flash Player, I - out of pure ignorance -
wrongly assumed that this positioning information must be
stored inside the raw subs file and that this same information
was responsible - after being processed by GiP - for the
prepending of "- " before every line in the final .srt file.
Thank you for clearing this out for me.
However, in both cases an individual subtitle line begins with:
"- ", i.e. a dash and a double space.
get_iplayer does that when it sees structure that indicates multiple
speakers in a single subtitle. Unfortunately, this new subtitle format
uses that structure even when there is only one speaker, so hyphens get
prepended even though unnecessary.
Again, thanks for the explanation - at the end of the day, it was not
a big issue for me, since I used SubtitleEdit to batch remove
all the unnecessary " "- " in front of every subtitle line.
Better yet, I fed the original raw subs file (ttxt) to SE
and processed it according to my liking, also
retaining the original line breaks; I am aware of your list post
pertaining to this last matter, to which I will reply later, after I have
applied the fix and conducted some experiments...
As ever, many thanks DP for your ongoing support of GiP!
V.
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