Hi Jesse, first of all: this tool generates subtitle-files (.srt files, don't really know their official name), based on the teletext subtitles of your recording. A bit like Closed Caption, but then for PAL.
Once you have a mpeg-file with the accompanying srt-file, you can watch your recording (with mplayer) including the subtitles. These subtitles are originally meant for the hearing impaired, but they come in quite handy as well for foreign people, who want to watch english programs... subtitles, even in english, makes understanding what you're seeing a bit easier... :-) You can, of course, use this srt-file as well to make a DVD recording with subtitles (for example, by using KMediaFactory) vbi2srt was announced in this list, because the PAL-teletext-subtitles pop up every now-and-then as a subject in this list. They're still on Hans' VBI-to-do list... and it certainly would be nice if we could incorperate this PAL-teletext-subtitle feauture in the ivtv-driver somehow, but that will still take some study, I guess... regards, Johan Duinkerken. > Duncan Webb wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> The program vbi2srt generates subrip files (unicode) from teletext data >> in the same directory as either the input file or the output file. >> Either the video input or video output must be a video device. I've >> only tested this program with ivtv-0.4.0 and a PVR-350 on an AMD64 and a >> P3 machines. The resulting srt files are in utf8 format so all languages >> should be possible. >> > > Maybe I'm the only one who doesn't know, but what's the need/motivation > for this? > I guess I don't know what SRT is. > > -- > Jesse Guardiani > Programmer/Sys Admin > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > _______________________________________________ > ivtv-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-devel > -- "if it ain't broken, try harder..." _______________________________________________ ivtv-devel mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-devel
