Come to think of it, it'd be nice to watch a few eps in raw to see if it's worth getting dual audio and timed English subs. Or even streaming would suffice.

And sorry I forgot to thank you in the previous post. It'd be great they have Japanese subs. It's definitely worth a try!

As for thread conversations similar to the most recent, re: Code Geass, could you leave them to this thread: http://forum.koohii.com/viewtopic.php?id=2708? It would help keep them sorted from the posts directly related to the software itself (version updates, error reporting, etc).

bombpersons wrote:

When using subs2srs is it possible to have the video clips be the same quality as the original video? The reason I ask is that I like to keep things in high quality and I'd like to know if there is another way to keep the same quality without guessing a high bitrate that will probably bump the filesize up unnecessarily. I know ffmpeg has the option -sameq which does this, is it possible to use that in subs2srs?

I'll look into it. Thanks.

lagwagon555 wrote:

Well, I guess a decent place to ask where to get subtitles from, is where did the author get the subtitles to The Girl Who Leapt Through Time from? I have the DVD (Australian release), and of course, only comes with English subtitles. If I order DVDs from Japan, will they have exact subtitles? And are there any things you have to look out for, or any other tips to make sure you get a DVD with exact subtitles?

As awesome as the community looks, for making subtitles. I'm afraid I just don't simply have the time, and I'd far, far rather have native material. I'd be perfectly willing to order a few (OUTRAGEOUSLY priced) Japanese DVDs, the amount of material they give you each is incredible. I'm sure ordering just Gundam Seed would give you enough sentence mining for months and months.

First of all, let's use this thread as nest0r suggests. So this will be my last post about subs in this thread.

As for Japanese DVDs, if my memory servers me, most of them don't have Japanese subtitles at all. But don't quote me on this; I have an incredibly poor memory. Besides, I've never tried to turn on Japanese subs. Anyway, I'm pretty sure most anime don't, so if you want Japanese subs for anime, you're out of luck. Let's hope fansubbers have them.

I googled a little and found this. The company seems to be offering a CC service for any DVD for people with hearing impairment. The company says it did for The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, though I'm not sure if it's the same sub as cb4960's. I'll look more into it later.

About the community, what do you mean by "native"? Are you referring to scripts from film makers? If so, you might have to give up or settle for scripts made by native speakers. I've been speaking Japanese entire my life and can transcribe pretty much anything accurately if I put effort, I guess.

With that said, I'd like to point out transcribing English dubbed anime has tremendously improved my English skills. You might want to try it. I recommend it if you're learning Japanese in an AJATT-ish way.

And sorry for outrageous price for DVDs from my country. I better use Amazon.nz, huh?

I'll be working on Japanese subs today. Yay! It's Saturday!

Last edited by magamo (2009 June 06, 3:22 am)

I'm really close to being able to finally use this, but I'm stuck on the DVD ripping part.  I ripped a rented Japanese copy of battlestar gallactica (2 eps per disk, just one disk for now) to my harddrive with DVD decrypter and then attempted to encode it.  My first run worked, but made one long episode (out of two) with English audio.  I tried it again and got the Japanese audio (still one long ep).  I can't for the life of me find the subtitles on the disk and I've tried opening every part of the disk with AutoGK and none of them show subtitle tracks.  Anybody know how to access them on a DVD?  I'm also looking for the right thread (or other forum) for this post, if anybody knows offhand haha.

Edit: Hooo, I'm so smart I figured it out.  Woo.  You have to open the disk index file rather than the video file directly to find them.

Last edited by welldone101 (2009 June 06, 6:32 pm)

Nukemarine wrote:

I don't think you'll get a good impact with translated movies. The subtitles rarely match up with what's being said.

That said, there's Japanese subtitles on the open subs website for Battlestar Galactica. You have to re-time it slightly to match up with the Japanese release, but the advantage is the subs are text based meaning it's easier when you're adding extra info to your cards or looking for definitions.

There's a set on the DVD for each too.  One for going with English vocal and then one that matches the Japanese voice acting.  I'm still trying to get the right one ripped, it's stupidly annoying getting it to work right.

@welldone101
http://www.opensubtitles.org/

From the picture, it looks like subs2srs is correctly getting the timing info - this is good... But ffmpeg (the program that actually converts the video) would seem to be choking on the input video for some reason. Can you tell me a little more about the input video? Items such as video codec (xvid, h.264, etc.), audo codec (mp3, aac, ac3, etc.), container (avi, mkv, mp4, ogg, etc.), video resolution, and bitrate might help. Thanks.

Last edited by cb4960 (2009 June 14, 10:28 am)

That is exactly what I needed to know. I'll go look into it.

Edit: I've tried ffmpeg on similar files without any problems. I'm not sure what exactly it doesn't like about that particular file. The only workaround that I can think of is to obtain the video file from another source and try again.

Last edited by cb4960 (2009 June 15, 10:40 am)

Hmm, seems to work OK for me. Make sure that the .srt is UTF-8.

OK Using the Mono framework ( http://www.mono-project.com/Mono:OSX ) I've got it to work decently well. Well, it runs. I can do SRT subtitles really well, really fast.

What I can't do is handle Audio or Video.
If anyone else has a Mac and would like to help the community figure out how to get this working, we could definitely do something wonderful.

Although, even if it IS just Subs2SRS and not Audio/Video2SRS, it's still a useful resource.

Asriel wrote:

OK Quick Update:

I've got some --really--- hacky solutions for how to get the Snapshots, and I'm nearly 90% sure that the same sort of modification will work for Audio and Video as well.

They're -very- hacky so far, but slowly it's coming along.

Sounds awesome!
I've wanted to try subs2srs for a while but don't have a virtual machine setup.
I can help test this. I have a first-gen intel macbook, running 10.5.7
I may be able to help fix some issues too. I'm a programmer, although I haven't use C# or .Net at all.

I'll try to get my machine setup with Mono tonight or tomorrow. Feel free to message me.

PS: have other people really found the video feature useful?
I downloaded 2 decks - "toki wo kakeru shoujo" and "ff7 advent children" (thanks heaps to those who uploaded decks!).
The first is audio and pictures, the second is video and pictures.
It could just be the padding in the FF7 deck, but I've found there is enough of a delay starting the video (even though it's not really long) that it just doesn't feel right. i.e. it feels like the audio/video isn't syncing or is getting cut off. Also, most of the lines are so short, or the scene isn't that interesting, that they don't really warrant a video. Given the size of the media, and the more seamless integration, I figure the audio+picture is all I really want anyway so far.
Perhaps the issue is I'm not "picking" my sentences enough, and I need to be more selective?