[PLUG] VLC experts?

[Jason Barnett]

Another possible solution for you is to use either subtitleeditor or
subtitlecomposer which are both in the ubuntu repositories.  These let you
edit, split, combine the subtitles.  I have not used them myself, but are
likely to be a faster method than manipulating the large avi files.

Jason

On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 7:48 PM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net>wrote:

> On Sat, 28 Aug 2010 10:28:35 -0700
> wes <plug at the-wes.com> dijo:
>
> >> >On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 08:40:06PM -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> >> >> I am trying to watch an old Korean movie. I do not speak Korean.
> >> >> The movie is not available anywhere, and is probably out of
> >> >> copyright. I found and downloaded a copy, but it is in two CD
> >> >> files of 700 MB each. The person who created the files did not
> >> >> include a file for subtitles.
> >> >>
> >> >> Separately I found two versions of subtitles for the movie. In VLC
> >> >> they work great with the first CD file, but when I try to continue
> >> >> with the second CD file the subtitles start over from the
> >> >> beginning. VLC extended controls offer an offset, but only up to
> >> >> 60 seconds.
> >> >>
> >> >> I've poked around for the past half hour, but haven't hit on a
> >> >> solution. Does anyone have any suggestions for how to get VLC to
> >> >> play both CD files in sequence automatically using the same
> >> >> subtitles file?
>
> >> >Why not split the subtitles file so you have one for each CD?
> >>
> >> That was my first thought, but I didn't do it because I know nothing
> >> of how subtitles files work.
> >>
> >> Another thought I had was to concatenate the two CD files, which are
> >> in .avi format. Once again I am short of clues. But considering how
> >> many people work with video I suppose there is a tool somewhere in my
> >> Fedora 11 repos which will do the job.
>
> >I agree that the easiest solution is likely to combine the two video
> >files. The fact that the filename ends in ".avi" doesn't tell us
> >anything about what format the video is in. But, there is nothing
> >wrong with trying and seeing what happens.
> >
> >cp cd1.avi movie.avi
> >cat cd2.avi >> movie.avi
> >
> >now see if movie.avi plays in VLC, and if you can seek past the end of
> >the first movie. Then add in the subtitles and you're golden.
> >
> >If this doesn't work, it's probably in a non-linear video format. You
> >"might" be able to correct this by converting it. You can use a tool
> >such as ffmpeg to convert the part files to raw MPEG, then combine
> >them with the above method.
>
> The cat solution did not work. It appeared to work, the hard disk
> blinked for a long time, but the resulting file played only the first
> CD.
>
> Then I started looking around. First I tried Pitivi video editor, but it
> was incapable of much of anything. Then I tried Avidemux, and success!
> It took awhile poking around in the menus to figure out how to
> concatenate two files (File > Open, then File > Append), and it
> successfully created one .avi file. VLC is happy to play it, and the
> subtitles work continuously. I note that on both the File > Open and
> File > Append operations Avidemux complained that the index was
> incorrect, offering to correct it. I let it do so.
>
> This is not the first time I have encountered a movie split into more
> than one file so it would fit on CDs. Now I know how to put them
> together. Per aspera ad astra.
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