These links to a blog and video about using subs2srs are copied from AlexandreC's post in another thread so people searching 'subs2srs' will be more likely to find it. Thanks AlexandreC.

AlexandreC Wrote:I'd like to introduce a nice video that presents how to use Anki to learn to understand your favourite TV series in 30 days:

It's made by Judith Meyer (Sprachprofi on HTLAL), a hyperpolyglot who just started Japanese. She is also the one hosting my page on pitch accent, for those who are familiar with it.

The video accompanies a very detailed post on her blog on language learning, which is definitely worth a read (http://temp.learnlangs.com/step-by-step … in_30_days).

I can't believe I waited so long to try this!!
It's freaking awesome.

I might just skip core6k because of this >_>.

But I was wondering, is there a way to add the readings for the kanji to the cards?
I tried putting {{readings}} (or something like that) as a field when editing the layout, but....no success..

Minki Wrote:I can't believe I waited so long to try this!!
It's freaking awesome.

I might just skip core6k because of this >_>.

But I was wondering, is there a way to add the readings for the kanji to the cards?
I tried putting {{readings}} (or something like that) as a field when editing the layout, but....no success..

Do you have the Japanese Support plugin for Anki? Basically it adds a few extra features like support for auto-generating furigana like that.

Yup!
Japanese support is checked in the plug in menu.
Not sure what I'm doing wrong :/

I'm not using Anki 2, but according to https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/3918629684 the format is no longer just {{Reading}}:

Quote:Anki can display the furigana in a number of ways. To customize the way it is displayed, click "Cards" while adding or editing a note. In the question or answer template, the following options are available:

Show the kana above the kanji:
{{furigana:Reading}}

Show only the kanji:
{{kanji:Reading}}

Show only the kana:
{{kana:Reading}}

Oh! Sorry, I forgot to mention:
I'm using Anki 1.2.8

Here's some screenshots from the deck properties/card layout... not sure if that's helpful though..
But maybe I overlooked something?
http://i848.photobucket.com/albums/ab46/...es/3-1.jpg
deck properties

http://i848.photobucket.com/albums/ab46/...pture1.jpg
card layout

http://i848.photobucket.com/albums/ab46/...es/2-1.jpg
fields

It usually works just fine with other decks (non subs2srs) that I create...but those use {{Reading}} so, in theory it should work with this deck too...

I tried the furigana:Reading thing just to be sure, but... then it acted like "Expression",
and when I tried to correct it... the Japanese subs just disappeard :/

Maybe I'll just suck it up and carry on without furigana >_<

If I remember correctly, you have to open the card browser dialog, select the cards that you want to generate readings for, and then select the "Regenerate Readings" option from the "Action" menu.

Edit:
Here is the help for the Anki 1vJapanese Support plugin:
http://ankisrs.net/docs/JapaneseSupport.html

First - let me say THANK YOU for such an amazing tool. I am really excited to be using it and have just created a great deck (The Avengers) for learning Chinese. I am also really amazed by cb4960's ongoing support and innovation on this tool.

If I can make a feature suggestion - one of the issues I faced was retiming subtitles due to different framerates in the video (ripped from my original Chinese DVD) compared to the SRT files I downloaded. I needed to use Subtitle Creator to convert the framerate on the SRTs -- which essentially meant doing a linear transformation on the SRT files. The difference was substantial - while the first subtitle was fine, the final subtitle actually needed to be at 2:15 but was at around 2:10. So the first few subtitles aligned ok but quickly got out of alignment.

It might be useful to be able to do this directly in subs2srs - simply by specifying the correct initial and final subtitle starting time it might be possible to scale out the actual timings used for getting audio / video samples without bothering to modify the .SRT files.

That said, if anyone else has issues with framerate timing (you will find the subtitles get more and more out of sync as time goes on) for the moment I can recommend Subtitle Creator as a pretty easy to use tool, which seems to preserve the encoding of the input files. You might need to play around a bit with the framerates to figure out what you have versus what you need. I recommend you do this by looking at the final line of dialog in the film and using that as your target (when it lines up well you probably have the right timing).

For a long time now, I have been hoping to try out this program.
Problem I have always had though, was that whenever I finally came across some media that I *really* like, I would never be able to find both english and japanese text based subtitles for it.

Well now I finally have 2 or 3 things that I would like to try, but I have immediately noticed some problems.
First of all, English and Japanese subtitles don't really match up all that well. I mean, the actual lines of text dont necessarily contain the same parts, and the timing may be different.
For example, I might find that the Japanese script will contain an entire line from one character, and then part of a line from another character, then the next section will be the remainder of the 2nd characters line. Then the english script just has it as one line for the first character, then another line for the 2nd character.

So how the heck do I use subs2srs with this? Am I going to have to go through and basically rewrite the entire scripts myself and adjust the timing of all the lines to make sure everything matches up?
I mean, I used to do fansubbing years ago, so I CAN do it... but it just takes so freaking long.
I see so many people talking about how great subs2srs is, so I can't help but feel I have to be missing something here.

Zarxrax Wrote:So how the heck do I use subs2srs with this?

subs2srs has a couple of functions to help matching but they only work so well

Zarxrax Wrote:Am I going to have to go through and basically rewrite the entire scripts myself and adjust the timing of all the lines to make sure everything matches up?

I wouldn't bother. A few decks I wanted to make had the same problem. Some subs just don't match up very well. I just gave up on them and made other decks with subtitles that worked well.

I think on about 50% of the files I've used subs2srs the matching works well, so if you can find another video you like its a good chance that it will work well

Alright, well I guess I will keep looking for stuff then.
I'm not a person who tends to enjoy watching stuff more than once, so its rather difficult for me to find anything that I think I will enjoy doing reviews of for a long time.

Zarxrax Wrote:I'm not a person who tends to enjoy watching stuff more than once

Doesn't help with language acquisition - I suggest a change in attitude.

@tysond,

Thanks for the suggestion.

@Zarxrax,

I wrote (but never released) a nice tool to help me re-time a subtitle file based on the timings of another subtitle file (helpful when one is already synced to a video but the other is not). The re-timing takes only a few seconds as opposed to a few minutes using a more general subtitle timing tool such as Aegisub. In the next release I'll try to merge it into the Tools menu of subs2srs.

Zarxrax Wrote:Alright, well I guess I will keep looking for stuff then.
I'm not a person who tends to enjoy watching stuff more than once, so its rather difficult for me to find anything that I think I will enjoy doing reviews of for a long time.

Much like you, I don't really enjoy re-watching most shows.

In my opinion, for subs2srs cards all that matters is that the cards are enjoyable. If the show was good, and it had many enjoyable sentences or phrases, you can use it. You're not reusing the whole series, you're only using the parts that you enjoyed.

This tip here isn't completely necessary, but it has helped me out a lot. You could try cloze deleting subs2srs cards. Cloze deleting forces you to engage with the text, even if it's just a small particle. This makes (most) of my boring cards engaging.

If only subs2srs wasn't written in .NET it might be easier to get motivated to do some kind of SRS output → mecab → auto clozes. Can it currently run on Mono/Mac?

tokyostyle Wrote:If only subs2srs wasn't written in .NET it might be easier to get motivated to do some kind of SRS output → mecab → auto clozes. Can it currently run on Mono/Mac?

Maybe you can try it and let us know.

cb4960 Wrote:

tokyostyle Wrote:If only subs2srs wasn't written in .NET it might be easier to get motivated to do some kind of SRS output → mecab → auto clozes. Can it currently run on Mono/Mac?

Maybe you can try it and let us know.

Nevermind, misread Mono/Mac as Wine/Mac. It will definiately NOT work with Mono/Mac without modifications.

So, I tried it now, but in Anki, it shows the html code:

<img src="Subs2srs_dump_1_0.18.02.320.jpg">

instead of the image?

Can anyone help me out here?
The sound files (which are in the same folder) works fine..

Stian Wrote:So, I tried it now, but in Anki, it shows the html code:

<img src="Subs2srs_dump_1_0.18.02.320.jpg">

instead of the image?

Can anyone help me out here?
The sound files (which are in the same folder) works fine..

Make sure that the "Allow HTML in fields" option is checked in Anki's Import dialog.

Oh, forgot about that, thank you.

What causes videos imported with subs2srs to not show up in Anki? (I can only hear the audio from the video file.)

I've been googling around for the better half of the last hour..

EDIT: Scratch that -- I just expected more of the video player; more than crashing windows aero and opening in a new window.

Stian Wrote:What causes videos imported with subs2srs to not show up in Anki? (I can only hear the audio from the video file.)

I've been googling around for the better half of the last hour..

EDIT: Scratch that -- I just expected more of the video player; more than crashing windows aero and opening in a new window.

Hopefully someone will port the Custom Media Player plugin from Anki 1 so that users don't have to rely on the (apparently) buggy default media player that ships with Anki 2.

I have just released version 27.0 of subs2srs.

Download subs2srs v27.0 via SourceForge

What Changed?

● Added Subs Re-Timer to the Tools menu. Subs Re-Timer can be used to re-time a subtitle file based on the timings of another subtitle file. This is helpful when one is already synced to a video but the other is not.

cb4960

Bug fixed, above link is restored.

Stian Wrote:What causes videos imported with subs2srs to not show up in Anki? (I can only hear the audio from the video file.)

I think my mplayer window didn't get focus by default as was under some other window. If you click it on the taskbar while a file is playing it should come to the top and then stay that way when playing videos in the future.

Stian Wrote:EDIT: Scratch that -- I just expected more of the video player; more than crashing windows aero and opening in a new window.

Crashing windows aero shouldn't happen. You can modify it to play fullscreen, but it's not embedded into Anki's review window.

Btw: Anki 1 and 2 both use 'mplayer' (in slave mode), which is probably the most versatile and powerful video player around.