MicroDVD2SRT/README.rst

MicroDVD to SRT converter

There is still MicroDVD formatted subtitles around (usually with .sub extension) although they are frames based, which makes them useless for same movies with different frame rate. This is an converter for such subtitles to widely used SRT format.

Requirements

Only Python interpreter is required.

Installation

No installation is required, although microdvd2srt.py might be placed in one of $PATH locations for convenience.

Usage

This script simply accepts subtitle file as an argument, so it is enough to:

microdvd2srt.py file.sub

Converted subtitles will be write up on the stdout output in terminal. To write it to destination file:

microdvd2srt.py file.sub > file.srt

To change default frame rate, which is 25, use the -f option:

microdvd2srt.py -f 23.976 file.sub > file.srt

License

This software is licensed under 3-clause BSD license. See LICENSE file for details.