GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 591541
Display vobsub subtitles from video
Last modified: 2018-09-21 16:03:52 UTC
For formats such as MKV which can store embedded vobsub files, it would be wonderful if gnome-subtitles would display those subtitles on the video preview (obviously it should keep the subtitles being edited below the preview). Since gnome-subtitles uses gstreamer which can handle this sort of subtitle, this should be fairly doable.
Hi again, To be honest, I don't know if many people will actually use this feature. It would also present some questions like the placement of the subtitles so they wouldn't stay on top of each other (vobsub is image-based so the location might be unknown). Plus, having a VobSub import feature presented in your other request could make this a bit unnecessary, what do you think?
One way to prevent them from appearing over each other would be to display the text subtitles outside of the video part. Fully importing VobSubs with OCR would do the job fine, *if* the OCR does a good enough job. In my experience it generally doesn't, and some way of viewing the original and comparing the text with it would be very useful for proofreading, et cetera. My other request is just about importing timings, which would be much easier to do, and could be done more reliably and sooner than OCR can be done.
Alex, In terms of implementation schedule, timings should be quicker/first to be implemented, I'm just trying to consider full features here. The way I'm actually seeing is to have this *inside* the OCR feature. From my (short) experience with OCR applications of this kind (SubRip), the subtitle images were displayed during OCR, so you just basically could check if the OCR was OK and correct it at that time.
Accepting on the basis of a low implementation complexity using GStreamer features.
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