Is there any way to extract the hard coded subs and output a .srt file that I could then run afterdawn on? TIA
Yes of course. Here's the problem. Assume a video, in a foreign language, has hard coded subs in the same language for hearing impaired folks. I can't understand the language so I want to get subs for this, however there are none available. So my thought was to input the .avi/mkv... file with the hard coded subs and output a .txt file (like ripping an av file and outputting just the song and not the video). At that point since I can't delete the hard coded subs and given it's the only copy available, I would simply burn a new version of the movie injecting the now translated subs at the top of the movie so as not to clash with the original hard coded subs. I realize this would be complex as you can't, like with txt subs, scan in, pass a string to Google and write the return since you have no idea of how long each sub is visible for; but that's what OCR is there for right? . Just wanted to know if there were any tools out there to do that. Thanx
Since I don't see through brick walls any better than anyone else, I thought it not out of line to ask. Try this - it has no help file and hasn't been updated - you might figure it out. Have a good one. http://www.videohelp.com/software/AVISubDetector
Nope. There is another program 'SubRip' that will open an AVI with hardcoded subs and perhaps ocr them - it does have a Doc file included. http://www.videohelp.com/software/Subrip