On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 08:04:26AM +0000, Thomas Levine wrote: > 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? >
It may be possible to do this with mpv and lua scripts.
