On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 9:00 AM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Aug 2010 06:55:06 -0700 > Michael Rasmussen <[email protected]> dijo: > > >On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 08:40:06PM -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote: > >> I am trying to watch an old Korean movie. I do not speak Korean. The > >> movie is not available anywhere, and is probably out of copyright. I > >> found and downloaded a copy, but it is in two CD files of 700 MB > >> each. The person who created the files did not include a file for > >> subtitles. > >> > >> Separately I found two versions of subtitles for the movie. In VLC > >> they work great with the first CD file, but when I try to continue > >> with the second CD file the subtitles start over from the beginning. > >> VLC extended controls offer an offset, but only up to 60 seconds. > >> > >> I've poked around for the past half hour, but haven't hit on a > >> solution. Does anyone have any suggestions for how to get VLC to play > >> both CD files in sequence automatically using the same subtitles > >> file? > > > >Why not split the subtitles file so you have one for each CD? > > That was my first thought, but I didn't do it because I know nothing of > how subtitles files work. They appear to be text files, but each line is > preceded by numbers in braces, e.g.: > > {4597}{4656}Please proceed to Gate 3 now. > > I am guessing that the numbers have to do with timing, but I can't make > sense of them. The above subtitle appears a few minutes into the first > CD. > > There is also a "header" line that appears at the beginning of the file > and seems important. The first line says: > > {1}{1}23.976 > > Again, I need to gather up some clues. > > Another thought I had was to concatenate the two CD files, which are > in .avi format. Once again I am short of clues. But considering how > many people work with video I suppose there is a tool somewhere in my > Fedora 11 repos which will do the job. > > Then again, it might be easier to learn Korean. > > I agree that the easiest solution is likely to combine the two video files. The fact that the filename ends in ".avi" doesn't tell us anything about what format the video is in. But, there is nothing wrong with trying and seeing what happens. cp cd1.avi movie.avi cat cd2.avi >> movie.avi now see if movie.avi plays in VLC, and if you can seek past the end of the first movie. Then add in the subtitles and you're golden. If this doesn't work, it's probably in a non-linear video format. You "might" be able to correct this by converting it. You can use a tool such as ffmpeg to convert the part files to raw MPEG, then combine them with the above method. -wes _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
