From: Rashkae <ra...@ti...> - 2005-10-23 22:04:24
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On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 01:31:20PM -0400, Robert La Ferla wrote: > > > > > What are "external subtitles"? Are they for DVDs? What's the benefit? > > 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. |