ruiner wrote:

Nukemarine wrote:

I do have a request:

Can the field that shows the title of the show "movie_yyy" be changed to be "movie_yyy_xxxx". It will be sequential to the cards created in that sub batch.

Reason: If you use Anki's media check, it'll rename the audio and media files. Without those to sort and identify, it's hard to know where in the show or subtitle file

Did Grandpa Nukemarine wander off before finishing this comment?

Connection stopped in the middle of the submission I guess. Wasn't much at the end other than saying how find a line in a sentence or export and sort.

I have a question though. I tried to use it, but I'm not seeing the option to "add context lines"

Ohh, so that's what Nukemarine was on about. Yes, I was wondering how I might more easily mix and match different lines' audio/video fields for call-and-response cards. Not sure how I might use this, but I'm sure I'll figure something out once I get into it. Thanks.

ruiner wrote:

Is there a way to exclude lines by time rather than characters?

Well, not yet anyway...

Here's another roughly thought out feature request (or inquiry as to whether there's already an easy way to do this) - the ability to crop snapshots, so that if you have hardcoded EngSubs, you can remove the bottom of the images en masse. Might be better than making them then batch cropping them? Shrug. Sorry to bug you again. ;p

Notice I didn't say anything about video cropping. I think that might be a more intensive process best left to third-party software? Or not...

Last edited by ruiner (2009 September 06, 10:17 am)

Hi there. First of all, I would just like to say that this is a fantastic program.

Secondly, I would like to make a suggestion (is this the right place to do so?)

The context support is a really great idea, but its implementation is slightly flawed. Can I suggest that, instead of pairing up the lines of the dialogue (E-J) and then working out what the next and last lines of dialogue are, you do it the other way around?

Let me give you an example. I set it to include the last 2 and the next 2 lines of dialogue, and I ran subs2srs on episode 1 of Death Note. The two copies I have (E&J subs) are from different sources, so even though they have been re-timed, the match between the subs isn't always 1-1. Sometimes 1 line of dialogue on the Japanese version is split into 2 in the English, and vica versa. Also, sometimes line breaks in long sentences are in different places.

The line I am reviewing is as follows:

同居している25歳の女性に暴行を加え殺害したとして​
Naoki Kofuji, 35, was arrested in connection with the murder of​

As you can see, the translation doesn't really match the line of text. No problem - This is because it is the middle of a very long sentence, and since word order differs between English and Japanese, the translation is a bit out. The correct translation would be

"in connection with the murder of a 25-year-old female he was living with"

This is exactly the type of issue that I thought the context support function would help solve. However, not so.

The context (+-2 lines) provided for the Japanese is perfect:

次のニュースです​
本日正午過ぎ、東京都渋谷區で​
同居している25歳の女性に暴行を加え殺害したとして​
35歳の男、兔富士直樹容疑者が​
殺人の疑いで逮捕されました​

However the context support for the English is gibberish, as follows:

In other news...​
Today, shortly after noon,​
Naoki Kofuji, 35, was arrested in connection with the murder of​
in the Shibuya district of Tokyo.​
in the Shibuya district of Tokyo.​

Going back to the original subtitle file I found the actual context, which is as follows and makes perfect sense:

In other news...
Today, shortly after noon,
Naoki Kofuji, 35, was arrested in connection with the murder of
a 25-year-old female he was living with
in the Shibuya district of Tokyo.

Now.. it should be fairly obvious what has happened... but basically since the line breaks in the two subtitle files are in slightly different places, it has matched both lines 4 and 5 in the Japanese with line 5 in the English. It has then carried this error across to the context support.

Would it not be better to use the original English subtitle for context support, rather than matching it with the Japanese first and then doing it?

Hope that is clear - Let me know if you need more clarification. I can provide more examples, also, if that is useful :-o

So the Toki deck is brilliant. But is there any way, in Anki, to add an extra field that converts the kanji to furigana in the answer card? Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask, but I'd appreciate any help...

So does anybody know what the current best approach for some subs2srs equivalent that runs on Linux is? I can probably hack something together if I have to, but it doesn't seem very sensible to duplicate work  if somebody's already done it...

Thanks!

When I attempt to run subs2srs I get the error: "The application failed to initialize properly". I am running Windows XP with SP3 through Parallels, however it is the TinyXP build, which has left out a lot of components. Could that be the problem? If so, which components should I install? Thanks!

EDIT: I installed the .NET framework and now it works fine.

Last edited by snozle (2009 October 03, 1:18 am)

Sebastian wrote:

Isn't it possible to use subs2srs through Wine?

I couldn't get it too work.. Did you get it working?

I am able to get everything to work perfectly, except that my output media folder does not include the mp3s. Both jpegs and pngs (vobsubs) are output, but no mp3s. While running I see that the mp3 is being encoded and I am even able to locate the temporary file in the temp directory, however after completion the files are nowhere to be found. Any ideas?

Thank you!

I tried with another video that used AAC audio, which didn't work either. Do you have any suggestions? I don't think it could be putting the audio in another directory (other than the one I specified in output) but is that possible? Also, do I need to install anything else, such as mp3split? Thank you.

UPDATE: I also attempted to use the audio extraction tool and I have the same problem.

Last edited by snozle (2009 October 04, 1:24 am)

bombpersons wrote:

Use a virtual machine to run windows, and then run subs2srs inside that. It's a bit slow, but it works.

Yuck :-)  So since I had some spare time this weekend I threw together a Python reimplementation. The brave can get hold of it with

bzr branch http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~pmaydell/bzr/pysubs2srs

(if you're not comfortable with running bzr this may be too beta for you :-))

Command line only. Sample invocation:

 ~/pysubs2srs/trunk/pysubs2srs  --debug --outdir=out --subdir=jsubs \
   --videodir=video --deck=aoi --sub2dir=esubs --audio --snapshots

Still missing a big pile of features: video generation, support for non-ASS format subs, leading/trailing context, and others listed at the top of the script. However, it works for me and produced a usable audio+image snapshots deck on my test input. May well work on Mac; unlikely to run on Windows without hacking about with it.

Huge debt owed to cb4960 for (a) having this great idea in the first place and (b) making his version available under the GPL so I could easily reimplement it. (My code is also GPLed.) Thanks!