ViceTV Subs

[Uranium23567]

Trying to get hamiltons pharmacopeia for a friend as high quality as I can get. Yes I can use windows capture with the subs but I want to give this a try. Getting actual video from vice isn't hard. They use JW player and with the network monitor in firefox console, getting the m3u8 file is easy. The final output contains 2-3 sub tracks, and none of them show actual text.

There is an attempt to get a .vtt file but it's 404. Still the subs show in the web. I even did a text search in each video file for keywords. Not sure if they're in plain text or not.

Yes, you have to have a streaming/cable service subscription to view the videos

TIA

[iamghost]

use CCExtractor run with cmd
subtitles is in video

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subtitles for episode 1
https://files.videohelp.com/u/301156/S01E01.srt

[Uranium23567]

It does make the SRT, but vlc fails to even load the video when it's there. What are you using to make the final output? I'm using m3u8x

[Uranium23567]

use CCExtractor run with cmd
subtitles is in video

[Attachment 88950 - Click to enlarge]
subtitles for episode 1
https://files.videohelp.com/u/301156/S01E01.srt

ok I converted it to a mkv with toolnix and put the srt in the folder and the subs are messed up. I think the program that joins the segments is causing this (m38ux). Btw that episode is not S1E1

[Uranium23567]

I think I see what it's doing, though I see no way around it. The video has two Closed Captioned streams. I think it plays one text above the other at the same time.

[Asdfgf]

I think I see what it's doing, though I see no way around it. The video has two Closed Captioned streams. I think it plays one text above the other at the same time.

One of the two closed captions is okay and the other is wrong, or the two of them are wrong?

[Uranium23567]

the SRT that gets extracted is "Closed captions 1". This displays at the same time (when there is two caption lines) as "Closed captions 2" which displays under it

I should have been more specific: the second picture with the captions is a screenshot of it playing FROM THE WEBSITE. As it should.

I think what they're going for, is instead of combining a larger black bar with two upper/lower texts, is trying to block less visual area by separating it into an upper and lower texts separately. By having Captions 1 on top and Captions 2 on bottom. Though the Extractors only so far just extracts captions 1

[iamghost]

there is other way to find vtt
filter xml
link: https://vms.vice.com/en_us/video/preplay/58069a24384d80472bbbca53?skipadstitching=1&_a.........bla..bla...
filter ccurl:
vtt for s01e01 link: https://vms-images.vice.com/243756/product/5806/58069a24384d80472bbbca53-1476828327394...6828420181.vtt

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https://files.videohelp.com/u/301156/s01e01.srt

[Uranium23567]

How did you find that? I searched the console for any .vtt files

[iamghost]

How did you find that? I searched the console for any .vtt files

you wont find vtt in network tab, vtt link is in json file so find preplay link to open it then find cc url link

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[ProWo]

You can try clever FFmpeg-GUI for the captions extraction.
Load your video, click main page, click extract EIA 608/708.


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[Uranium23567]

How did you find that? I searched the console for any .vtt files

you wont find vtt in network tab, vtt link is in json file so find preplay link to open it then find cc url link

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How do I find the preplay link? I did some research, tried The Stream Detector plugin but it only found the ts m3u8. Searched through the console for json too.

[iamghost]

How do I find the preplay link? I did some research, tried The Stream Detector plugin but it only found the ts m3u8. Searched through the console for json too.

forget about The Stream Detector it only fetch media links. just use inspect element F12 on your browser. filter preplay then it will show 1 link right click on it and copy url

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[Uranium23567]

is that firefox?

[iamghost]

its chrome.
you can do both firefox and chrome

[Uranium23567]

I searched the inspector for 'preplay' and got no results in FF (like days ago)

[iamghost]

I searched the inspector for 'preplay' and got no results in FF (like days ago)

not in inspector tab, it is in network tab
firefox...

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[Uranium23567]

Got it. Thanks man. I could swear I tried this before, but I think I just searched for the .vtt, which was a different one.