I want to write some subtitles for some videos. I found several subtitle editors through web searches, and their documentation doesn't make them look very good. What's more, I haven't managed to install any of them properly, which is both inconvenient and further indicative of suck.
I think that most of what I want could be accomplished by having a video player that writes the current time somewhere (like a file) when I press a particular key. I would play the video until I get to the position where I want to start or stop a subtitle, then I would press the key, and then I would copy that time to the subtitles file. Another helpful feature would be to reload the subtitles file without changing the current time; this way I could review the subtitles more quickly. Do any video players already do this? Or, does anyone have other recommendations about the editing of subtitles?
