Help! Rip Chinese Subtitle

[balonglong78]

Hi, I need to rip Chinese subtitle out. I am using Subrip now, but this software fail to rip out chinese text in txt
format.. Is there any free software out there where i can get the time plus the chinese text in .ass or txt format?

Help~~~~


Thanks!

[AlanHK]

You can just demux the subtitle, in SUB or SUP (graphic) format.
Use, eg Rejig.

I've done that when rebuilding DVDs to retain Chinese subs. I add new English ones and reauthor using the SUPs from the original release.

[balonglong78]

hi AlanHK,

I dont get wat u mean... I have a DVD with i like to rip out the chinese subtitle in .ass or .sub...

using Subrip, I cant get the chinese text.
using Imtoo, the Sub file cant be use.
using Xilisoft, the sub file also cant be use.

help please, is can. write down the step 4 me? Thanks!!!!!

[AlanHK]

hi AlanHK,

I dont get wat u mean... I have a DVD with i like to rip out the chinese subtitle in .ass or .sub...

using Subrip, I cant get the chinese text.
using Imtoo, the Sub file cant be use.
using Xilisoft, the sub file also cant be use.

help please, is can. write down the step 4 me? Thanks!!!!!

On a DVD, subtitles are actually bitmap graphics.

If you want text files, (ASS, SUB) then these have to be OCRed. But all the standard utilities can only OCR English (or Latin) characters, not Chinese, as you've found.

Why do you want to get text subs? If you're going to use them in a DVD, you can just use the original graphic format, as I mentioned.

[jman98]

Some subtitle utilities can do OCR on Cyrillic (I've forced them to do that), but it's a very ugly process. You have to go to Control Panel -> Regional And Language Options -> Advanced then change the "Select a language to match the language of the non-Unicode programs you want to use". There are several choices for Chinese. You will have to select the right one, reboot, and start the subtitle ripping program that does OCR and hope that it now works and is correctly able to read the subtitles AND that you have a way of inputting the complex Chinese characters into the OCR program so it can match what it reads. It's going to be VERY VERY time consuming, IF it works at all. It may not work.

If you are trying to rip the subtitles so you can convert to Divx, maybe you should find a Chinese language forum where people would know more about what the whole process takes. You might be able to just use the demuxed subtitles as AlanHK suggests, but we don't know why you want to do this, so we are just guessing. Ripping subtitles in non-Latin characters is very difficult.

[AlanHK]

Some subtitle utilities can do OCR on Cyrillic...

Cyrillic I suppose can be dealt with as if it were English, in an odd font. It has approximately the same number of characters. But Chinese has several thousand distinct glyphs. An OCR program designed for European alphabets will simply fail on Chinese.

I'll say this one more time: you can use the existing bitmap subtitle, as a SUP file, with standard authoring software.

Otherwise, you'll have to ask on a Chinese language forum.

There are sites where one can download subtitles of popular movies in various languages (eg, http://www.opensubtitles.org/), there are probably similar sites for Chinese speaking audiences.

[Midzuki]

I presume balonglong78 intends to produce hard-subbed AVIs.
I guess he could use VSRip to convert the DVD subtitles into an idx+sub
and then import this latter with VSfilter.

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