Well, with any player that plays ass subs really, but the procedure requires Mplayer :)
(I know I haven’t written a real post in a good while and this doesn’t quite count. I’ll post soon! I hope.. at least, I’m positively definitely trying to really write a proper post and push it out as soon as I’m positively capable of doing. No really!)
So I found myself needing to have both english and chinese subtitles on at once today and struggled with it briefly. I eventually found the solution in the form of a script called merge2ass (Source). What it does is it takes two different subtitle files and smushes it into a single ass file that basically shows the first subtitle file at the top of the screen and the second subtitle file at the bottom, something like this:
Yuki is sad all this is harder than she wanted
Usage of the script is simple enough. Make it executable, then supply the video file, the first subtitle file, then the second. You can also just run the script without arguments and it’ll show a nice help message.
chmod +x merge2ass.sh
./merge2ass.sh yourmoviefile.format sub1.srt sub2.srt
This will produce a file called yourmovilefile-bilingual.ass that you could then load with mplayer (or whatever other player you want) to get simultaneous dual subtitles.
Oh right, for this to work with chinese subtitles, you need to change line 125 and/or 128 of the script and supply -subcp enca:zh:BIG5 as an mplayer option, as per this post. Just add it immediately after ‘mplayer’, like so:
mplayer -subcp enca:zh:BIG5 -dumpsrtsub -noautosub -really-quiet -frames 0 -sub "${sub[1]}" "$movie" 2>>"$mplayer_err" && echo "Done"
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大中华崛起了？这动画不是日本的？
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hi, what am I doing wrong that I get this:
merge2ass.sh edukators_1.avi edukators_1.srt edukators_1_de.srtProcessing..
mplayer ist /usr/bin/mplayer
Converting the 1st subtitle file (edukators_1.srt) to a time-based format...
Done
mv: der Aufruf von stat für »dumpsub.srt“ ist nicht möglich: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
Converting the 2nd subtitle file (edukators_1_de.srt) to a time-based format...
Done
mv: der Aufruf von stat für »dumpsub.srt“ ist nicht möglich: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
sed: kann edukators_1.srt-temp nicht lesen: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
sed: kann edukators_1_de.srt-temp nicht lesen: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
rm: das Entfernen von »edukators_1.srt-temp“ ist nicht möglich: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
rm: das Entfernen von »edukators_1_de.srt-temp“ ist nicht möglich: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
innn
I am sorry that was in german. Basically it says “mv:calling for dumpsub.srt not possible: file or folder not found”
sed: couldn’t read first.srt-temp: not found
sed: couldn’t read second.srt-temp: not found
rm:deleting *-temp not possible: not found
I have to say that I get a *-bilingual.ass file though but it’s not showing anything in smplayer.
Jason "moofang"
Looks like the mplayer commands are not running correctly. You can change the value of mplayer_err to something else: look for the following lines inside the script:
Uncomment the first and comment out the second, then run the script again and check for additional error messages.
innn
@Jason
thank you for such quick answer. I get the same errors by editing that.
Basically what happens is this:
Converts the 1st to a time-based format…
Done
But when must it move the dumpsub.srt file (it’s in the code) it says not found.
Converts the 2nd …Done. Moving not as it doesn’t exist.
Then twice sed command complains not founding these files:${sub[1]}-temp and ${sub[2]}-temp
followed by rm complaint that cannot remove them as they don’t exist.
If it helps somewhat I run it on Ubuntu 13.10 x64
Jason "moofang"
Hmmm, what happens is that the mplayer commands are supposed to produce the dumpsub.srt files that the mv command then renames. The mv command complaining means dumpsub.srt was not produced, meaning something went wrong with the mplayer commands. Maybe /dev/stderr isn’t a visible stderr on ubuntu. Try running the mplayer command directly:
And see if you get any useful info? This command should produce a dumpsub.srt in the current folder.
innn
I’ve tried it:
mplayer -dumpsrtsub -noautosub -really-quiet -frames 0 -sub edukators_1.srt edukators_1.aviand I got only this:
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
No dumpsub.srt file there.
Jason "moofang"
Hmmm, it looks like it is trying to use VDPAU but VDPAU isn’t installed on your system. Do you normally play videos with mplayer and do they normally work?
Try telling it to use another backend:
See if that makes a difference? You can also get a list of available backends with
In case xv has any issues as well.
Fixed your comment code blocks btw.
innn
Ok I tried with -xv still no outcome. I only get htis now:
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
innn
wait a minute I got it , I disabled LIRC in .mplayer/config
with this line : nolirc=yes
run the command and voila there was no error and the dumpsub.srt sitting inside the directory.
I’ve just run again merge2ass.sh and the *.ass file is there and working.
Sorry to have bothered all this time and thank you once again . Still in shock because of that lirc support mplayer wouldn’t dump the sub file. Nasty thing.
Best regards.
Jason "moofang"
Glad you got it working :)
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Hello:
I’m trying FreeBSD on VMware virtual machine, on a HP PC model with Intel architecture 64bist. Install Mplayer and I can not install the codecs, someone help?.
Note:
SVN stops and does not work.
Thank you.
Jason "moofang"
Hi, this isn’t the right place to ask, I’m afraid. This site isn’t really affiliated with mplayer – it is just my personal blog :)
If you need help with running mplayer on FreeBSD you’ll need ask somewhere else. You can try mplayer’s mailing list or irc channel, see: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/mailing_lists.html, or you could look for similar channels in FreeBSD, see: http://www.freebsd.org/community.html
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Use KMPlayer instead of combining two subtitle. It can show up to three subtitles simultaneously. My settings can be recognized two subtitles automatically. I only click the video file.
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Please how can I get the same in Windows?
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Peope who are showing both subtitles at the bottom, do not forget to pass -ass option to mplayer!! :)
Marc
Thanks a lot.
Here it is a script to run it with just:
mplayer2 video sub1 sub2 [margin] [extra-mplayer-params]
https://gist.github.com/waiting-for-dev/017d31eee21c08641687
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I tried this some time ago and it was not useful for some players (ASS format is not widely accepted yet).
For that reason I created and released a tool to merge and translates SRT subtitles: DualSub (http://dualsub.sourceforge.net/) . This tool works with SRT subtitles for input and output. It has many options for customization. In addition you can use it to translate subtitles to any language.
Enjoy!
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Use KMPlayer instead of combining two subtitle. It can show up to three subtitles simultaneously.
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Nice!
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On other website for dual subtitles : http://www.dualsubtitles.com/ The advantage for this website is : compatibility with Kodi (XMBC) and automatic detection/conversion of the files encoding to UTF-8.
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Great tip, was initally using greanfish subtitle player but it shows on a separate window. Guess this one does the trick.
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Thanks for that tip Jason.
It worked for me too
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Great tip, was initally using greanfish subtitle player but it shows on a separate window. Guess this one does the trick.
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