How to convert IDx/Sub to Srt w/o typing a manuscript

[FireWalker]

Required Tools: Subtosup and DvdsubEdit



1. Launch Subtosup. Click [....] or File then Open.




Browse to the folder that contains the IDX file, then double click file to Open.







2. A Subtosup 0.9 Beta window will appear, just click ok and close Subtosup.




A subtitle-id_with different langages will appear in the folder.. (example: subtitle-id_en_0x20).






3. Then launch DvdSubEdit. Drag n drop subtitle-id_en_0x20.sup file onto DvdsubEdit window.



2nd window will appear requesting ifo, just press cancel to continue.




4.Now Look to the bottom right of DvdSubEdit window, there's a button call "Run OCR".



This process the sup file.





A "Running OCR" window appear.




Once finished, your now able to press "Save as .srt", a "Save OCR output as .srt file".




Note save the srt with the same name as your movie file but with the extension .srt




(example: if batman_forever.avi is the name of the movie then batman_forever.srt is the subtitle file you save.)




5. Congradulations, you avoided typing a manuscript.

[manono]

Never mind. Sorry.

[somniloquist]

WORKED...
GREAT.....
WOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[only]

This worked perfectly! Thank you VERY MUCH FireWalker!!

[johns0]

Is "The Bunker" a movie or a project?

[ulapines]

Subtitle Edit is another good free tool doing the same job.

[Noahtuck]

Is "The Bunker" a movie or a project?

......

Thanks very much for your help.

This worked perfectly on a download I had called "The Bunker".
It contained an avi file and 2 files for subtitling (sub and idx files)

I was able to convert the files over to an srt file and then play the
move with mplayer.

(Here are some good options to use with mplayer when you want to
display subtitles as part of the black bar on the bottom on widescreen movies, instead
of having the subtitles show up on top of the video image.

mplayer -fs -ass -ass-use-margins -ass-top-margin 70 -ass-bottom-margin 70 -ass-color 0090ff00 -ass-border-color 00000000 -ass-font-scale 1.8 -fontconfig -font arial "/Movies/Der Untergang - Downfall (2004).avi" )

[pmshah]

I can't believe it was so simple. All the while I have been using subrip where I had to type half a manuscript. The worst part of it was that the character set used was different from one movie to the other and the preocess had to be repeated.

This one did the job in under 2 minutes that includes keeping this page open in one window and following the instructions in the other.

Thank you very much. You are a life saver.

[m.eshi]

The guide was perfect but I've got a problem. This method works with English subtitles but when I try to convert
.sub subtitles in other languages to srt, the converted subtitles do not appear correctly and I see some strange characters instead of the texts. For Example:__ !_' ...__I#i!

In subtitle creating softwares(like subtitle workshop) the same problem occurs, but it is easily solved when you change the charsets.

So, I wanted to know if there is a similar thing in DVDsubEdit or a way to solve my problem.

[pmshah]

Couple of conversions went very well but than I encountered one that was absolutely horrible. It very much depends, I guess, on the fonts used by the original creator. Thankfully it makes identical error for the same character.

What I did was to first convert using the procedure described above. Then I used a text editor with find and either replace or skip procedure with editor on one PC and the movie playing on another. Had to repeat this process several times for different errors. It was a bit laborious but the final result was a thousand times better than watching the movie with original subtitles !

[pmshah]

Subtitle Edit is another good free tool doing the same job.

I agree entirely. This one is far superior to the subtosup + DVDsubedit combo. Quite often the latter does a horrible job of OCR and the worst part of it is that there is no included spell check. So going back and correcting all the errors is extremely painful. The funny part is even when the displayed fond form idx+sub combo is as sharp as the regular srt file these errors occur.

[Mephesto]

This failed for me. The "Run OCR" popped up the progress window briefly and closed.

[MilesAhead]

Subtitle Edit is another good free tool doing the same job.

I agree entirely. This one is far superior to the subtosup + DVDsubedit combo. Quite often the latter does a horrible job of OCR and the worst part of it is that there is no included spell check. So going back and correcting all the errors is extremely painful. The funny part is even when the displayed fond form idx+sub combo is as sharp as the regular srt file these errors occur.

Just tried Subtitle Edit. Only tried one srt from idx/sub but it seemed to do a good job. I was doing something similar to the guide except I used BDSup2Sub on PGS subs to reduce the resolution to 720x480 and export the ifo/sup files. Then I imported into DVDSubEdit.

Occasionally I got the lines with underscore characters as noted in the thread. But the majority of English subs I tried came out with no edits required. I got a lot of garbled lines when processing PGS subs, then out of frustration I tried downsizing the resolution to 720x480 first. Seemed to make a world of difference. I suspect the automatic OCR in DVDSubEdit is tuned to English at DVD resolution.

Nice to have another method though. Subtitle Edit is in the toolbox.