Some times ago, I was trying to re-synchronize subtitles and video whithin VLC player, the typical : "150 ms after ... erf, 50 ms before, that's it ! no ... it's still desynchronized ...".
After giving up, and by curiosity, I opened the file, and found that the SubRip format is, in fact, quite simple. Just for trying, I read and displayed them in a browser. This is the way SubRipReader was born, using Mootools 1.2.
Edit : SubRipReader has been deleted since then, its functionnalities are now integrated into the Mooplay project. More to come about it.
Unfortunately, it won't resolve my initial problem. But it's still able to load the subtitles through an Ajax request, to parse them, and to display them step by step, into a DOM element.
It supports :
For playing subtitles, use Srt.Parser and Srt.Reader :
-
var myReader = null;
-
-
var myParser = new Srt.Parser({
-
url: 'test.srt', // the subtitle file url
-
onComplete: function(data) {
-
myReader = new Srt.Reader(data, {
-
container: 'mysubtitlecontainer', // where to display subtitles
-
time_container: 'mytimecontainer' // where to optionnaly display the internal timer state
-
});
-
}
-
});
Then, you should be able to call the start and pause actions :
-
myReader.start();
-
myReader.pause();
I've just seen about the Universal Subtitle Format, it's going to be the time to implement its own parser !
