[Sublib-general] SubLib 0.7 is out!

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

What's It?
==========

SubLib is a library that eases the development of subtitling
applications. It supports the most common text-based 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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- Added support for subtitle translation
  * Translation property in each Subtitle
  * Search methods now search in translation too
  * Select the type of text content (text or translation) to use when saving
  * Allow to clear translations and import a translation into existing subtitles
- Try every detected encoding instead of only the first one, and use
the first encoding that works
- Allow to trim subtitle lines when getting them
- When replacing blank lines, also apply the replacement if the text is empty
- EncodingNotSupportedException is now thrown if an Encoding is not
supported by the platform, when opening a file
- Fixed some bugs that were visible when doing a backwards search
- Updated NCharDet


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:

    * Support for subtitle translation
    * 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