[mythtv-users] transport stream tools, possibly including ProjectX

[Nick Craig-Wood]

Robin Neatherway <robthebob at gmail.com> wrote:
>  On 5/24/06, Nick Craig-Wood <nick at craig-wood.com> wrote:
> > I'm currently using version 0.90.3 - maybe you could try that?
> 
>  I've decided it's not an enormous problem as I can manually select the
>  IDs and I can work them out reliably using mplayer and a bit of text
>  processing.
> 
> > What about different recordings - do they have that problem too?
> 
>  Yes it's strange all my recordings seem to have this problem.

Strange...

> > You'll see in the GUI that PX can output loads of different subtitle
> > formats - there is hopefully one you can use!
> 
>  I've tried selecting a different format (sub) but this doesn't seem to
>  have any effect. Could you try on one of your recording please and let
>  me know if it works.

Yes I tried various different output formats and they seem to work.

Sounds like something is wrong with your installation of ProjectX, but
I can't see what!

> > I've managed a test DVB->DVD with subtitles using pxsup2dast.c from
> >
> >   http://www.guru-group.fi/~too/sw/m2vmp2cut/
> 
>  I've tried this program as well, the thing is that I want to get the
>  subtitles into a matroska or other standard video container. I
>  therefore need them as text or vobsub, and the only way I can find of
>  getting vobsub titles is by ripping them from a DVD. Should I author a
>  DVD with subtitles as you describe, except with dummy audio and video
>  and then rip vobsub out of that?

There was a thread about this recently...

  http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/205457

and one of the suggestions was exactly that.

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Nick Craig-Wood <nick at craig-wood.com> -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick