Subtitles - fix timing for subtitles in various text formats

http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/dist/Subtitles http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/htdocs/Subtitles/README.html http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/htdocs/Subtitles/Subtitles.html

http://search.cpan.org/~karasik/Subtitles-0.08/ http://www.karasik.eu.org/software/Subtitles.tar.gz http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/cpan/authors/id/K/KA/KARASIK/Subtitles-0.09.tar.gz

Movie files can be viewed with subtitles, which are currently very popular as text files. The command line tool 'subs' and its perl backend Subtitles.pm provide means for simple loading, re-timing, converting, and storing these subtitle files. Supported formats are .srt, .sub, .smi, and .idx. It can easily be extended.

The module supports .srt, .sub, .smi, and .idx subtitle formats.

Version        0.07    Released        27 Jan 2005
Version        0.08    Released        17 Oct 2005
Version        0.09    Released        9 Mar 2007

Warning: -i is a great feature, but use it with certain caution.

If subtitles are shown too early ( 5 seconds):

subs -i -b 5 file.sub

If subtitles are for a movie in 25 fps, need to be for 24 ( actual for frame-based formats only ).

subs -i -a 24/25 file.sub

If subtitles start 1 second too early, but in 1 hour are late in 7 seconds:

subs -i -p 0 -1 -p 1:00:00 +7 file.sub

Join two parts with 15-second gap

subs -o joined.sub -j 15 part1.sub part2.sub

Split in two after 50 minutes and half a second ( makes basename.1.sub and basename.2.sub ).

subs -o basename.sub -s 50:00.5 toobig.sub

Remove closed caption-specific comments such as '[Sneezing]' or '[Music playing]'

subs -e 's/[\s-]*\[.*\]\s*\n*//gs' sub.sub

To install this module type the following:

perl Makefile.PL make make test

make install