Anyone familiar to ProjectX?

Reddwarf · 2011-03-06, 02:45 PM

Has anyone had any luck demultiplexing dvb-subtitles from a recording and ocr'ing them? I'v tried ProjectX and it gives me the .sup and .ifo files, but the letters appares to be too bold, or fat to the extent they cannot be distinguished from each other.

When I view the recording with npvr the letters are perfectly clear and separated, nothing wrong with the subtitle itself so I'm guessing that ProjectX messes them up.

Elmo Putney · 2011-03-06, 09:42 PM

Not something I've tried, you are probably in the minority of a minority here

mvallevand · 2011-03-06, 09:51 PM

I lot of people mention subrib and sub2srt for OCR'ing on the NMT forums. It is probably worth trying subrip first and going through the OCR training process which is the step often left out that makes the biggest difference.

Martin

Reddwarf · 2011-03-06, 11:13 PM

mvallevand Wrote:I lot of people mention subrib and sub2srt for OCR'ing on the NMT forums. It is probably worth trying subrip first and going through the OCR training process which is the step often left out that makes the biggest difference.

Martin

I'v used SubRip a lot for ocr'ing subtitles from dvd, but it does not handle dvb-subtitles. It has a relative, SupRip which can rip BD subtitles, but unfortunately not HDTV or other dvb subtitles. ConvertXtoDVD was supposed to be able to convert HDTV to DVD including subtitles, but it has a bug that squeezes the text to FUBAR and the bug has not been fixed yet... So I'm stranded.

mvallevand · 2011-03-06, 11:17 PM

Can't subrip use the sup and ifo files from ProjectX

Martin

Reddwarf · 2011-03-06, 11:41 PM

I haven't found a way to to open them with subrip.

agerdin · 2011-03-28, 10:52 AM

Reddwarf Wrote:Has anyone had any luck demultiplexing dvb-subtitles from a recording and ocr'ing them? I'v tried ProjectX and it gives me the .sup and .ifo files, but the letters appares to be too bold, or fat to the extent they cannot be distinguished from each other.

When I view the recording with npvr the letters are perfectly clear and separated, nothing wrong with the subtitle itself so I'm guessing that ProjectX messes them up.

Reddwarf, I have been experimenting with ProjectX and besides the sup, ifo and idx files I also get perfect srt's to use. I am extracting teletext subtitles from DVB-S streams recorded in NPVR.

With this I see no need for OCR'ing

\\Agerdin

Reddwarf · 2011-03-28, 01:44 PM

agerdin Wrote:Reddwarf, I have been experimenting with ProjectX and besides the sup, ifo and idx files I also get perfect srt's to use. I am extracting teletext subtitles from DVB-S streams recorded in NPVR.

With this I see no need for OCR'ing

\\Agerdin

I do that regularly too, but not all channels transmit teletext, for inst. BBC HD, History HD, Nat Geo HD and Discovery HD only have dvb-subtitles which you can only get as .sup/.ifo from ProjectX.

agerdin · 2011-03-28, 04:50 PM

Reddwarf Wrote:I do that regularly too, but not all channels transmit teletext, for inst. BBC HD, History HD, Nat Geo HD and Discovery HD only have dvb-subtitles which you can only get as .sup/.ifo from ProjectX.

Got it, I have only so far tried BBC Entertainment and Silver. Now i know if I need to grab subtitles from other channels.

Thanks

\\Agerdin

Reddwarf · 2011-03-28, 06:24 PM

agerdin Wrote:Got it, I have only so far tried BBC Entertainment and Silver. Now i know if I need to grab subtitles from other channels.

Thanks

\\Agerdin

I'd be very happy if you or someone else could find an easy way to rip these to .srt :o