Hard coded subs

Is there any way to extract the hard coded subs and output a .srt file that I could then run afterdawn on? TIA

 

There's no simple way to do this.
Have you looked at a download site that may have the subs?

 

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

 

Thanx for that, as you said no or little documentation. Would you know of any that run on OSX?

 

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

 

Thanx! I'll give that a try! Appreciate the help!