Re: [libreoffice-l10n] Video subtitles - srt files?

Þann fös  7.okt 2016 09:00, skrifaði Milos Sramek:
> Hi Sveinn,
>
> > BUT there's a hitch: Many languages have different length of those
> > sentences; at least in my case I had to split the segments differently
> > from what you'd do for English.
> > I'm pretty sure there are other languages having this problem.
> Do you mean that one should break manually the text in order to be
> displayed in youtube correctly? Because mplayer displays them correctly
> without manual breaks.

I see now that Mike has already uploaded the English .srt, so it's not 
automatically generated anymore. Just the splitting of long phrases is 
automatic.

Nevertheless, since a good portion of my sentences bypass the 42 
character limit default on many players (Kaffeine, Codeine, Totem etc.), 
I did segment the text differently from the original English.

I can see that the YouTube player manages to squeeze in some 72-75 
characters of proportional font in 1920x1080 native resolution (web 
page, not fullscreen), not sure what happens if the browser has to use a 
fixed-width font (must be less).

One example: the automatic sectioning of the English captions can be 
awkward: the 2nd phrase is split in 2 'frames' and the split is between 
"source" and "code":

"...working on source" | "code, user interface design..."

You can perhaps live with that with some languages, but for other 
languages that would be a disaster.

There's also a limit on how long strings you want to "torture" your 
audience with ;-)

So, to play safe, I did some manual breaks, added sections as necessary, 
adjusted the timings and tried to respect a good rule of thumbs: One 
keyword/highlight per line.

Just my thoughts,

Sveinn í Felli

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