Comments on: Looking for a Few Good Beta Testers

By: Abood

Abood — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 03:15:20 +0000

This is wonderful!

I would very much like to help too!

Thanks!

By: Charlotte

Charlotte — Thu, 13 May 2010 11:56:13 +0000

As much as I am very please with the idea of Universal Subtitles, and would like to contribute to such a subject, what do you do about illegal streaming, like foreign tv series, or tv shows ? Adding an open source subtitles system would make them spread on the internet like wild fire, while going against copy infringement.

And what about the aspect of community ? I’m sure this tool could kill subtitles streaming communities likes they killed the p2p subtitles community. Is it the next step in evolution ?

I just hope you guys thought well about the legality of subtitling videos that might not be legal to be on the web and the fact that you’re replacing communities that already do that kind of service for us Internet users, and how you can prevent the first and help the second.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Mon, 10 May 2010 16:03:18 +0000

I’d like to help subtitling some french videos :)

By: kwoxer

kwoxer — Tue, 04 May 2010 14:52:19 +0000

This Project sounds great. It would be a pleasure for me to help you guys.

Greetz
kwoxer

By: Dean

Dean — Mon, 03 May 2010 19:53:14 +0000

Yeah, we’ll try to work w/ them all! So let’s say VLC is requesting subtitles for a video — VLC will specify what format it prefers and we’ll respond w/ the right format (.srt, let’s say). A different site or type of player might require timed-text, so we’d hand that out when requested too.

We don’t have a comprehensive list of formats yet, but we’ll do our best to support the most popular types and maybe provide an API that people could use to adapt any format.

By: Abdessamad IDRISSI

Abdessamad IDRISSI — Mon, 03 May 2010 19:39:15 +0000

Thanx Dean for the replay, and sorry for not making my request more clear; By substitle format, I mean, How will you store this subtitles in your database in order to serve them to the client?.
As you know, today, there’s plenty of subtitle formats out there such as; SubRip, SubViewer, MicroDVD, SubStationAlpha.. Which one of this you will adopt as a standard format? or do you plan to release a new format? If for example I wanted to translate a show in youtube using your platform, ow will you store it in your database?

Please check this artcle at Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subtitle_%28captioning%29#Subtitle_formats

thanx again.

By: Dean

Dean — Mon, 03 May 2010 18:58:02 +0000

Hi dina,

We’re still working on an initial list of languages, but whatever we start with will expand as the project moves forward.

By: Dean

Dean — Mon, 03 May 2010 18:52:05 +0000

Actually, we’re not developing a subtitle format — we’re working on a standard way that any client (video player, video host, etc) can check to see if subtitles exist for a particular video (similar to how CDDB provides a way for music players to look up information about audio CD’s). The subtitle repository will provide whatever subtitle format the client requests for a given video.

By: Abdessamad IDRISSI

Abdessamad IDRISSI — Mon, 03 May 2010 17:29:13 +0000

Hello guys,

Great idea the one you have, especially the standardization of subtitle format, as you know, actually we have plenty of formats and it’s difficult to keep going with them all.

I started creating a web application (using Flex) with some shared points with your project; the idea was to create an alternative to “Adobe clip notes” that not only users of Adobe applications can use, but everyone. This helps speed the creation of subtitles, clip notes, chapter markers.. and the sharing of them either in pdf format or direct export to editing application (such as; Avid, FCP, Premiere..)

I’d love to know any information about the universal subtitle format you are developing, so that I can include it in my app.

Thanx and keep the good work.

By: dina

dina — Sun, 02 May 2010 05:19:53 +0000

what are the languages used