[mythtv-users] SRT subtitles

[Bill Williamson]

On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Doug Lytle<support at drdos.info> wrote:
> Bill Williamson wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Greg Estabrooks<greg at phaze.org> wrote:
>>
>>>>
>>>> I have Filename.avi, Filename.idx, and Filename.srt playing with the
>>>>
>>>
>>>  I'm curious, what is the .idx file for ?
>>>
>>
>>
>
> I don't know about .idx, all you need is the SRT files.  And, I've seen some
> .srt files that look binary before.  I usually open them with subtitleeditor
> http://home.gna.org/subtitleeditor/ and select save as SubRip.
>
> Doug
>


Wow, you led me to my big mistake... I have a blah.idx and a blah.sub,
not blah.srt!!!  I saw something.s** and just assumed it was srt!

idx + sub comes because I ripped a dvd.  subtitleeditor can't convert
them, I'll have to find something else that does.