Half a Page of Scribbled Linux

I went into Kino and exported sound from one of my movies (Export/Audio). The default sample rate was 32KHz, so I changed it per the xste documentation to 44.1KHz. xste requires the name of this file to be sound.wav and it must be in ~/.subtitles/project/sound.wav. Also, click the green button that says AUDIO RAW so that it turns yellow and says AUDIO WAV.

Hitting the AUTO button causes xste to generate a list of frame numbers corresponding to when speaking occurs. This sorta works. Then you chose the number from the list and listen to what’s there and transcribe it. There’s a subtitle preview, but I need to get a .mpv file out of Kino for this. SMILUtils will do it, but the site is down now. I’ll try tomorrow.

I’ve installed submux-dvd and xste. xste required xforms and libmpeg3 . Note xforms is supposed to be available from Savannah, but it isn’t there now. The link I have here I found from Googling. It seems just fine.

These are all source packages, which I put in /usr/local/src. Everything compiled without a hitch except xste. It seems the make install of libmpeg doesn’t install libmpeg3.a in /usr/local/lib and xste didn’t know where to find the xforms header files, so in xste-3.2.5/Imakefile, I had the make the following additions:

EXTRA_LIBS = -lpthread -lfreetype -L/usr/local/src/libmpeg3-1.5.3/i686

EXTRA_INCLUDES = $(FREETYPE2INCLUDES) -I/usr/X11R6/include/X11 -I/usr/local/src

and add a softlink in /usr/local/src so that libmpeg3 points to libmpeg3-1.5.3. Make these changes before you do any compiling. If you didn’t, you’ll have to start over at the xmkmf step. Not a big deal really.