[mythtv-users] Alternative for dicing .VOB needed

[Nick Rout]

On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Craig Huff <huffcslists at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 7:56 PM, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> There is a bit of info here:
>>
>> http://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.html
>>
>> but it makes little sense to me.
>>
>
> Thanks, Nick.
>
> More googling came across half a solution -- use ccextractor to get a
> .srt file containing the subtitles (closed captions) and the video
> player should be able to use that when playing the video of the same
> name -- fff.mp4 and fff.srt.
>
> Now, my problem is that ccextractor is either a windows executable or
> compilable source for us LXers.  I have not (yet, anyway) found a
> package for ubuntu or an independent package (ppt?  ppf?  -- something
> like that; I don't deal with them enough to remember exactly).
>
> I either need to find a pre-packaged version to run on my MythBuntu
> 10.04 system or figure out how to compile from source, it seems.

there is a mythccextractor, it has been referred to on this list
lately so look at the archives.