[mythtv-users] SRT subtitles

[Bill Williamson]

On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Bill Williamson<bill at bbqninja.com> wrote:
> 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.
>



idx + sub == image based subtitles.  For one movie I'll just use mplayer :)

Here's to hopeing someday myth supports vobsub :)