Imported media with Subtitles possible?

[dvd_maniac]

I am trying to get Sage to display the Subtitles in an .MP4 or .MKV file.
I have the latest Sage build and would love to be able to use Sage for all my veiwing needs. I have Apocalypto, Pan's Labirynth, Passion of the Christ and some other movies that will just not be watchable without Subtitles so I have to watch them using another player...
Kinda defeats the purpose here doesn't it?

Anyways, any help on this issue would be appreciated.

[ke6guj]

Originally Posted by dvd_maniac

I am trying to get Sage to display the Subtitles in an .MP4 or .MKV file.
I have the latest Sage build and would love to be able to use Sage for all my veiwing needs. I have Apocalypto, Pan's Labirynth, Passion of the Christ and some other movies that will just not be watchable without Subtitles so I have to watch them using another player...
Kinda defeats the purpose here doesn't it?

Anyways, any help on this issue would be appreciated.

If you have the the capability to extract the subtitles somehow, you could use JREkiwi's Closed Caption plugin, http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/showthread.php?t=23752 , with the subtitles saved into a .smi file.

Send Sage a feature request to let them know about playing those imbedded subtitles. I've send in requests for them to play the subtitles that are imbedded into digital recordings. The subtitles are there in the native stream from a HDHR or FW'ed STB, they just need to be playable in Sage in the default CC format.

[dvd_maniac]

Cool,

What is the best program to use to get the smi files from the DVD?

[ke6guj]

That I don't know. But if you do have a program that can extract into a different format, .srt, .sub, or something else, you can usually convert them to .smi. Subtitleworkshop is good, or you can use VobSub's Subresync.

[dvd_maniac]

SubReSync worked and JREkiwi's Stvi works great.
Thanxxx

[dvd_maniac]

has anyone here worked with Nero Recoded mp4 files, Yamb to demux the sub and subresync to create the smi subtitle file?
the subtitles seem to close together so subresync has to learn almost every word instead of just every letter.
It takes almost an hour to OCR a movie instead of 5 minutes...
Any help pn a better method

[ke6guj]

Unfortunately I don't know of a better way. OCR can be a pain, but it does vary according to the quality, size, and font of the original subtitles. Some movies can have almost non-OCRable subtitles, and others are a piece of cake.

I think the long term solution would be to get Sage to natively support more subtitleing options, either as subtitle files or imbedded subtitles. Sage uses mplayer as the video engine, and mplayer can play .sub files, I dunno about imbedded subtitleing.

[dvd_maniac]

Sage uses mplayer as the video engine, and mplayer can play .sub files

I ripped the subs out of an MP4 file using YAMB. The files it takes out are .sub and .idx. I have the latest closed caption stvi installed and it does not display the subtitles in Sage?
Are you sure that .sub is supported?

[ke6guj]

Originally Posted by dvd_maniac

Are you sure that .sub is supported?

Sorry, I meant to say that the current mplayer video player from mplayer supports .sub, but that Sage did not include .sub support in their usage. I dunno if it is due to the older build, or that Sage needs to configure sending some commands to mplayer to get it to display them.

I don't know if .sub support could be added in a .stvi. JREkiwi just ported and updated malore's original .smi support into an .stvi.