Another possible solution for you is to use either subtitleeditor or subtitlecomposer which are both in the ubuntu repositories. These let you edit, split, combine the subtitles. I have not used them myself, but are likely to be a faster method than manipulating the large avi files.
Jason On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 7:48 PM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
