maximveksler / subtitles

Display subtitles contained in an mp4 movie in an easy to read text file

subtitles

Tool to extract caption track from mp4 video container into human readble text format.

00:00 [ Music ]
00:05 >> Stanford University.
00:09 >> Alright, so welcome to Stanford CS193p, fall of 2013-14 academic year.
00:14 This is our very first lecture and we are going to be covering developing applications for iOS, so specifically iOS7.

Useful for quick lookup of a movie / lecture content, and as an aiding tool for textual learners. Also known to be friendly to passive aggresive search engines.

Prerequisites

brew install ffmpeg
gem install srt

Usage

Maxims-MacBook-Air:subtitles maximveksler$ ./blind ~/Documents/Lecture1.mp4

Movie file /Users/maximveksler/Documents/Lecture1.mp4.
Captions have been extracted.
Get them from /Users/maximveksler/Documents/Lecture1.mp4.txt.