Darn fat finger typos: test = text On Fri, Jan 17, 2025, 10:51 Tomas Kuchta <[email protected]> wrote:
> I use CLI mplayer without any issues for over 2 decades by now (sometimes > switching mpv) for both audio and video because it can be controlled by > keyboard. See man mplayer after you installed it. > > That said - what you really need is automated - subtitle extraction. It > listens to the track, transcribing it to .srt test file with time stamps. > > You could then use the .srt file to jump to a place in the track or simply > read what you need from it. > > Maybe - someone here would have experience with subtitle extraction. I do > not. > > Best, Tomas > > On Fri, Jan 17, 2025, 10:38 Richard Owlett <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 1/17/25 9:16 AM, Russell Senior wrote: >> > ... since the many alternatives (FFmpeg, libmpg123, libmad) avoid its >> > recurring issues like incorrect decoding with newer compilers" >> > >> > That note is under the heading "2012-06-10, Sunday :: MPlayer 1.1 >> released" >> >> On what I retrieve it says: >> > News >> > 2022-02-27, Sunday :: MPlayer 1.5 released >> which at only ~3 years old seems reasonable recent ;} >> >> > >> > 13 years later, I am not having any trouble playing mp3 files with it. >> > I think you can infer any popular audio media player is going to work >> > with the most common audio file format indefinitely. >> > >> > Reading your initial question more closely, I don't quite understand >> > what you are looking for with "automatically generated time stamps". >> > Mplayer is going to display the timestamp. You are going to have to >> > depend on some mechanism like cutting and pasting or reading and >> > typing to transfer the timestamp to where you are recording it. With a >> > little hacking to the source code, maybe you could bind a keystroke to >> > do something clever, like putting the timestamp into a cut buffer, but >> > that doesn't sound like that kind of hacking is in your wheelhouse. >> >> I'm not a programmer. On a purpose designed app "live" note taking would >> be designed in. >> >> > >> > There is a thread that talks about some options for recording >> > timestamps to a file here: >> > >> > https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=238889 >> > >> > I only read far enough to see that there was some vague relevance to >> > your question. That isn't a warranty that it will tell you exactly >> > what to do. Further research is an exercise for the reader. >> > >> >> That thread looks interesting. I'm preparing to leave for an >> appointment. I'll have lots of time this weekend. >> [SW Missouri will be within 10 degrees of 0F ;] >> Thanks >> >> >>
