[PLUG] Lecture oriented mp3 player

[Tomas Kuchta]

Darn fat finger typos: test = text

On Fri, Jan 17, 2025, 10:51 Tomas Kuchta <tomas.kuchta.lists at gmail.com>
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 <rowlett at access.net> 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
>>
>>
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