Anybody know of a painless way to offset video/subtitles?

Gilrad

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Gilrad 2008-01-21T20:02:08+00:00

So I once downloaded a video with the subtitles off by less than a second, and I realized that it helped my Japanese much more than simply watching it with well-timed subs. So now I'm looking for a way to do that to all my anime.

Anybody know either of a script that can add time to a subtitle file, or a simple way to cut out less than a second from a video file without having to worry about recompiling and crap like that?

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chan 2008-01-23T02:55:23+00:00

If they're softsubs, just use VLC or mediaplayer classic. I'm pretty sure they have built in features to allow you to add offsets to the subtitles.

If they're hardsubs, then I doubt you can do anything that seems reasonable. I guess you could always increase the audio offset +/- depending on if you want the audio to come before or after the subs, but then the audio would be out of sync with the video.

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Gilrad 2008-01-23T16:50:20+00:00

Of course I'm talking about soft subs

I've snooped around VLC and didn't find anything that could help. Heck, if I knew anything about programming, I'm sure it would be a five minute project to make a script that adds 0.75 seconds to each subtitle timing line.

But alas

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chan 2008-01-25T00:35:23+00:00

I think I tried this last night coz subs for a Korean drama were out

If you go into VLC and open a video under the File menu, select the video file and then enable subtitles. Once you select your soft sub file (.srt or whatever), I think there's a button in the open file panel for advanced options. I think you can change the delay (+ or -) for your subtitles. I did that for Coffee Prince last night, worked a charm.

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peppy 2008-01-25T06:01:05+00:00

Just thought i'd add that this is available in mplayer too.

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Gilrad 2008-01-26T17:22:55+00:00

Awesome, thanks!

And, so that it could work universally, is there a subtitle stripper out there that will take an embedded sub file, and make it an external srt?

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chan 2008-02-01T00:29:21+00:00

I seriously doubt it, but I guess you can always try google. Let us know if anything comes up.

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Gilrad 2008-02-01T05:59:47+00:00

I messed around with it and it turns out that if I act as though I'm opening an external subtitle file, setting the offset as mentioned, but not actually opening an external sub file, the offset still works. Thanks a bunch! It certainly looks weird with a ~2 second offset, but it helps a lot with my studies!

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