SubLib

New web site

2006-07-09T03:06:00.000+01:00

The Sublib project has moved to a new web site. It's available at:

http://sublib.sourceforge.net

New Features

2006-06-30T12:42:00.000+01:00

The library now has support for autotools, to build it without requiring NAnt. It has also been imported into MonoDevelop.

The public interfaces are being documented, so the API reference will be complete for the next release. The next release will also feature more synchronization options and support for more subtitle formats, as well as the improvements that have already been made since the last release.

All the changes are already present in the SVN.

A new website for the project is also in progress, so expect many changes in the near future.

API Reference

2006-03-17T23:03:00.000Z

The initial version of the library's API is online.

Contact me if you want to help documenting it.

SubLib 0.0.5 is out

2006-02-27T17:17:00.000Z

Version 0.0.5 has been released. I've been pointed out today that the previous release archives were corrupted. I'm sorry for not being able to detect that earlier, and would like to thank the (anonymous) user who noticed it and informed me.

The complete list of changes:
- Major namespace change, everything is inside the "SubLib" namespace now.
- Internal file organization change, Domain files are now under Application.
- Now tries western 1252 encoding if both auto-detection and the default encoding fail.
- Stop throwing exceptions when times and frames are accessed and invalid (use IsValid to validate)
- Possibility to create a new/empty subtitle file
- Associate a new subtitle file to a filename or set it unnamed
- SubtitleProperties now handles file path and allows operations on it
- Subtitle's duration field can now be changed, and not only the end field
- Subtitles are now indexed starting at 0, instead of 1
- Enumerations changed, removed the "Unknown" item for consistency
- New constructors to Times, Frames, Subtitle, SubtitleText and Subtitles
- Code cleanup.

Bugs fixed:
- Adding a subtitle to the beginning of the collection inserts in position 1 instead of 0

Source Repository

2006-02-27T15:57:00.000Z

The project's CVS has been migrated to Subversion (SVN).

It can be accessed online or with your favorite SVN client (remember to join the following 2 lines, it's a single command):

svn co https://svn.sourceforge.net/
svnroot/sublib/trunk/sublib sublib

Update

2006-02-16T02:34:00.000Z

The main sections on the right have been updated to reflect the project's current status.

SubLib is being used in the Gnome Subtitles project and numerous changes are on the way (some of which already available in the CVS).

SubLib 0.0.4 released

2006-01-29T01:50:00.000Z

This release features the result of an initial integration with Gnome Subtitles.

Change Log:

MicroDVD: now detects style tags anywhere inside subtitles' text
SubRip: fixed bug related to style parsing
Parsing engine optimized
Subtitle regular expressions are case-insensitive by default
Subtitles are now trimmed
Added Get() to SubtitleText, which retrieves subtitles separated by the newline character

SubLib 0.0.3 Released

2005-10-29T20:07:00.000+01:00

Version 0.0.3 is now ready for download. You can either get the pre-compiled Mono/.NetFramework binary (exe) or the source code (src).

This release features the result of a source code inspection. The internal structure was refactored, which now relates to a more consistent internal behaviour and clearer public interfaces. For detailed changes, take a look at the ChangeLog.

The library now includes a very decent (but still minimal) amount of functionality, so the next step will be to start building Gnome Subtitles, a subtitle editor for Gnome that will use SubLib.

Sublib 0.0.2 Released

2005-10-23T01:25:00.000+01:00

SubLib 0.0.2 has been released.

This release focuses on increasing the functionality of the synchronization module. The parsing engine has also been consolidated, due to testing and bugfixes.

Changes:

* Added a Post Process mechanism to the parsing engine
* Fixed some bugs with reading style tags from SubRip subtitles
* Has the possibility of displaying more verbose prints
* Properties mechanism sets the way subtitles are opened
* New operations: changing the framerate and the input file's framerate
* Includes a new README file

The project files are available for download at the Sourceforge Mirrors.

Version 0.0.1 is out

2005-09-24T04:27:00.000+01:00

The first version is out. It contains basicaly the core and is released for testing purposes, so any help would be really appreciated.

Take a look at How To Help and Getting Started in case you're interested.

The first key features are:

Subtitle format auto detection
Support for MicroDVD and SubRip subtitles
Auto detect the file's character encoding (using the Mozilla libraries)
Generic parsing engine allows to add new subtitle formats using regular expressions
Relaxed rules for parsing subtitles with errors
Lists the bits of text which couldn't be read
Supported operations: reading and writing

First post...

2005-09-13T23:35:00.000+01:00

...well, not exactly. Though, the few posts older than this one will be treated as permanent information about the project (as can be seen on the Links column on the right).

This will be the official home page for the SubLib project from now on. It has been migrated from the existing Wiki to provide a better way to publish news about the project.

The project has currently a somehow decent parsing engine, with automatic detection for the subtitle's format and text encoding. It also fully supports reading from and writing to MicroDVD and SubRip subtitles.

The development process is now concentrated on building the mechanism that validates and repairs the subtitles upon parsing and, afterwards, basic synchronization functionality.

In case you're feeling like it, any help would be appreciated (see How to Help).

That's all for now.

How to Help

2005-09-13T23:08:00.000+01:00

If you feel like it, you can help with the following:

Documentation - the library's API needs to be documented. A simple tutorial would also be useful.

Add support for more subtitle formats - SubRip and MicroDVD formats are currently supported. New formats can be easily created with the use of regular expressions. See the SubtitleFormatMicroDVD source file for an example, and use the Mailing List if you need help.

Support

2005-09-13T23:05:00.000+01:00

Support is provided in the Mailing List. You can also use the Forums.

Direct links for the tracking system:

Bugs

Feature Requests

Patches

Download

2005-09-13T22:51:00.000+01:00

The latest source release is available at the sourceforge mirrors:

sublib-0.0.5-src.zip (ChangeLog)

To build the library, run "nant build" at the project's root dir (see README for details).

There is also a binary available that allows to experiment part of the library's functions.

Requirements

NAnt
Mono or the .Net Framework

Latest code

Browse the SVN online, or with your favorite SVN client (remember to join the following 2 lines, it's a single command):

svn co https://svn.sourceforge.net/svn
root/sublib/trunk/sublib sublib

About

2005-09-13T02:47:00.000+01:00

SubLib is a library for managing movie subtitles.

It is written in C# and can be used with CLRs like the Mono platform or the .NET Framework.

Its features include:

Auto detection of the subtitle format
Auto detection of the subtitle character encoding
Support for time and frame-based subtitles
Support for the following subtitle formats (at the moment):

MicroDVD

SubRip

Modular parsing engine which allows to easily add new subtitle formats
Relaxed subtitle parsing, to read subtitles that contain errors
Possibility to list the bits of text which couldn't be read as subtitles
Framerate conversion

Projects that use this library: Gnome Subtitles.

Supported Operating Systems: All POSIX (Linux/BSD/UNIX-like OSes) , All 32-bit MS Windows (95/98/NT/2000/XP)

SubLib is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL).