[Sublib-general] ANNOUNCE: SubLib 0.5 is out

[Pedro C. <ma...@pe...>]

What's It?
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SubLib is a library for managing movie subtitles. It supports the most 
common subtitle formats and allows for subtitle editing, conversion and 
synchronization.

It is written in C# and can be used with platforms like Mono or the .NET 
Framework. It is currently used in the Gnome Subtitles project [1].

* About: http://sublib.sf.net/about/
* Download: http://sublib.sf.net/download/
* API: http://sublib.sf.net/api/


What's New?
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This release focuses on minor feature enhancements. The library now 
allows to find a subtitle given a specific time position. Utility 
functions for converting from time to frames, given the time in seconds, 
were also added.


Features
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Subtitle formats:

    * Advanced Sub Station Alpha
    * MicroDVD
    * MPlayer
    * MPlayer 2
    * MPSub
    * SubRip
    * Sub Station Alpha
    * SubViewer 1.0
    * SubViewer 2.0

Timing operations:

    * Auto-adjust timings based on 2 correct times / synchronization points
    * Shift subtitles by a specified delay
    * Convert between framerates
    * Set input and output framerates
    * Edit times and frames

Other features:

    * Edit subtitle headers
    * Search for text, possibly using Regular Expressions
    * Replace all occurences of some text in the subtitles
    * Find the subtitle at the specified time position
    * Character coding and subtitle format auto-detection (on opening)
    * Relaxed subtitle reading, to read subtitles that contain errors
    * Modular parsing engine which uses regular expressions to describe 
subtitle formats
    * Possibility to list the bits of text which couldn't be read as 
subtitles


References
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[1] - Gnome Subtitles - http://gnome-subtitles.sf.net

-- 
Pedro Castro