On Sat, 28 Aug 2010 10:28:35 -0700 wes <[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. >> >> 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. >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. The cat solution did not work. It appeared to work, the hard disk blinked for a long time, but the resulting file played only the first CD. Then I started looking around. First I tried Pitivi video editor, but it was incapable of much of anything. Then I tried Avidemux, and success! It took awhile poking around in the menus to figure out how to concatenate two files (File > Open, then File > Append), and it successfully created one .avi file. VLC is happy to play it, and the subtitles work continuously. I note that on both the File > Open and File > Append operations Avidemux complained that the index was incorrect, offering to correct it. I let it do so. This is not the first time I have encountered a movie split into more than one file so it would fit on CDs. Now I know how to put them together. Per aspera ad astra. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
