Re: [videoblogging] Re: DVD hacking?
Dear Gromik, Apparently subtitles are not stored as text files on a DVD disc, just as images. There's a program called Subrip which rips the subtitle file and tries to recognise the characters and convert them to a text file, which should then be linkable (manually, probably) to video files ripped from the disc. Helpfully (or not) it lists each subtitle with hour/minute/second timing) I haven't done it, but there's a guide to doing this here: http://www.afterdawn.com/guides/archive/rip_subtitles_with_subrip.cfm For simple DVD ripping to my iPod and Mac, I use Handbrake (not available for Windows), which allows you to convert a DVD to MPEG4 files on your computer, in Chapter segments or as a whole file. You can add the subtitles, but they are burned into the image, not available as an independent overlay and certainly not indexable by themselves. So a simple-but-not-very-automated way of doing it would be to use a program like this to rip each chapter on the DVD into an MPEG4 file with subtitles burned into it, use an editing program to cut them down further if you want and turn the subrip text file into a linked HTML file with each subtitle linked to the relevant video clip. Rupert FatGirlinOhio videoblog (by a thinnish man in London) http://www.fatgirlinohio.org http://feeds.feedburner.com/fatgirlinohio
RE: [videoblogging] Re: DVD hacking?
Not speaking to the copyright issues, only the technical ones, my understanding is that a DVD is a finished file, and is certainly uneditable on the disc. Many have software that prevents easy burning as well. You can play it on your machine and capture the video in real time in a program like camtasia studio. As to reading the subtitles and indexing the clips in that way, I can't imagine that it's possible. Robyn From: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gromik Tohoku Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 10:42 PM To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Subject: [videoblogging] Re: DVD hacking? Dear Videobloggers, Currently I am trying to understand if it is possible to go inside the programming of a DVD to edit the film. Is that possible? Next what I would like to do is find the program which tells the DVD which subtitles to play. I want to be able to then edit the film segments I want and index these segments via the subtitles. Is that possible? The aim is to take the legal portion of a film (10% or less - I imagine) for educational language learning purposes. I would like to put the subtitles index on a website (private - not public) so that students can click on a subtitle and see the film segment and view the context and content of the said subtitle. Any suggestions or advice are welcome. Nicolas Gromik Nicolas Tohoku University Sendai, Japan fax=81-22-7647 http://www.filmedworld.com/page.php?3 http://nag-productions.blip.tv/? http://sendai-city-tourism-tohoku-university.blip.tv/ Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
