Posted 30 Jun 2006 - 03:05 by noup
SubLib is a library that eases the development of subtitling applications. It supports the most common text-based subtitle formats and allows for subtitle editing, conversion and synchronization.
SubLib is written in C# and can be used in platforms like Mono or .NET Framework.
The library is currently used by the Gnome Subtitles project.
Subtitle formats:
- Adobe Encore DVD
- Advanced Sub Station Alpha
- AQ Title
- DKS Subtitle Format
- Karaoke Lyrics LRC
- Karaoke Lyrics VKT
- MacSUB
- MicroDVD
- MPlayer
- MPlayer 2
- MPSub
- Panimator
- Phoenix Japanimation Society
- Power DivX
- Sofni
- SubCreator 1.x
- SubRip
- Sub Station Alpha
- SubViewer 1.0
- SubViewer 2.0
- ViPlay Subtitle File
Timing operations:
- Auto-adjust timings based on 2 correct times / synchronization points
- Shift subtitles by a specified delay
- Convert between framerates
- Set input and output framerates
- Edit times and frames
Other features:
- Support for subtitle translation
- Edit subtitle headers
- Search for text, possibly using Regular Expressions
- Replace all occurences of some text in the subtitles
- Find the subtitle at the specified time position
- Import text scripts
- Character coding and subtitle format auto-detection (on opening)
- Relaxed subtitle reading, to read subtitles that contain errors
- Modular parsing engine which uses regular expressions to describe subtitle formats
- Possibility to list the bits of text which couldn't be read as subtitles
Supported Operating Systems: Linux, MS Windows, Mac OS X, all POSIX (BSD/UNIX-like OSes).
SubLib is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL).
