Re: [xine-user] Support for external subtitles

[TTH <tt...@ya...>]

Tee...@gm... wrote:
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>>Von: TTH <tt...@ya...> 
>>An: Tee...@gm... 
>>Kopie: Rashkae <ra...@ti...>, rob...@co..., 
>>xin...@li... 
>>Betreff: Re: [xine-user] Support for external subtitles 
>>Datum: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 00:29:19 +0800 
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>>Tee...@gm... wrote: 
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>>>>--- Ursprüngliche Nachricht ---   
>>>>Von: Rashkae <ra...@ti...>   
>>>>An: Robert La Ferla <rob...@co...>   
>>>>Kopie: TTH <tt...@ya...>, xin...@li...   
>>>>Betreff: Re: [xine-user] Support for external subtitles   
>>>>Datum: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 18:06:16 -0400   
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>>>>On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 01:31:20PM -0400, Robert La Ferla wrote:   
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>>>>>What are "external subtitles"?  Are they for DVDs?  What's the   
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>>>benefit?   
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>>>>External Subtitles are subtitles in a separate file than the one   
>>>>you are viewing.  They are most often stored as plain text, with   
>>>>some kind of encoding for time stamps and duration (so Xine knows   
>>>>when to display the subtitle).  The benefit is to watch videos   
>>>>with a foreign audio track.  (Very common, for example, with   
>>>>Anime)   
>>>>  
>>>>DVD's do not use text subtitles, but instead, a stream of simple   
>>>>raster images which are super-imposed on the video.  With   
>>>>Mplayer, you can extract the subtitle stream (known as a vobsub   
>>>>stream) and use it as an external subtitle.  The benefit is to   
>>>>encode your video stream (example, to transform from DVD to DivX)   
>>>>without having to OCR or transcribe the subtitles into text   
>>>>files.   
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>>>You can playback VobSub with xine if you mux it to Matroska   
>>>http://mkvtoolnix.matroska.org.    
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>>>Or you can use VLC ( http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ )for playback.   
>>>   
>>>Beside DVD you will find VobSub in mp4. This was invented by NERO.    
>>>VLC can play VobSub in mp4 only with 4:3 streams. With cropped 16:9   
>>>streams the subtittle don't show up. 
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> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1227952&group_id=84101&atid=571741
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>>>Richard      
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>>Forgive my ignorance.  Does the container really make a difference?  I 
>>mean if xine doesn't support  
>>vobsub, how would a different container help?  Could you confirm you 
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> have 
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>>tried it yourself? 
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> AFAIK xine support VobSub only with DVD and mkv.  
> Last time I tried VobSub in Matroska was playable with xine.   
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> Richard  
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This is certainly great news!  Thanks very much for the tip!  Will try it out.

TH
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