Extracting hardcoded subtitles-does anything actually work?

[kpic]

I have a letterboxed MPEG2 with hardcoded subtitles. The subtitles are a light yellow in color, I converted it to an AVI file.

SUBRIP: when I try to pick a color using the cursor nothing shows up in the text "color" field , I have tried to use the custom color to no avail as well (nothing shows in that box), so when I try to run it SUbRip does not pick up the subs correctly.

PodPis: using VirtualDub 1.6.17 & 1.6.18 I can crop the selected field of the subtitles (they are in the black lower bar of the video). It seems to work ok (I do as the instructions say to select the subtitles). I run VirtualDub but I do not get a completed subtitle file (instructions say that the file will be on the "C" drive) I did not find it there I found it in the same folder that the video was in, unfortunately it shows up as 0 bytes but does give a SubExtractor dump file

SubExtractor: Same as above, seems to work but the finished subtitle file is empty

[Jeremiah58]

There is AVISubDetector, if you want to try it.
I haven't been lucky with any of those tools, as well.

[Squash]

I was able to do it once with a hard-coded Xvid avi file by using SubRip. This was about a year ago, so I don't remember many of the details, but I do remember it was a bitch to do and ended up taking several hours, but I finally got a good .srt subtitle file. However, my subs were white, and I had no problem with SubRip detecting the color.

I posted this to say that if you haven't yet, you have to check this page for instructions to have any chance of success using SubRip:

http://zuggy.wz.cz/redir.php?co=101

If you've already seen that, then disregard this post as I have nothing else to offer.

The light yellow color may help you, though, if you do get it to detect them. Since the ones I did were white, any extraneous white in the subtitle area made things more complicated. Hopefully light yellow won't be as common.

In looking over the guide again, it appears that it also will rip hard-coded subs from MPEGs or VOBs as well as AVIs; this might help in the character-recognition. As I remember, I had to type in pretty much every instance of every letter since the xvid compression on top of the mpeg compression made it unlikely for any character to even match its own self the next time it came up.

It may well not be worth the effort. There's lots of places to download subs.

Good luck.

[kpic]

Yes, that is the link I used. Unfortunately I cannot figure out how to load a MPEG into Subrip even with the files it says I need.

That section in the instructions where it says the color should show up in the "text" box is what I cannot get (there is no color in my box)

I was able to get the Podpis program to work after using an older VirtualDub (1.5.4), it saved the file fine. But Subrip still did'nt recognize most of the subs (it picked up one line of about 15)

Guess the light yellow color is a problem.