Video file to subtitles file

[Muskan Sanghai]

On Friday, August 28, 2020 at 10:59:29 PM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 29, 2020 at 3:24 AM Barry <ba... at barrys-emacs.org> wrote: 
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> > > On 28 Aug 2020, at 17:37, Muskan Sanghai <muskan... at gmail.com> wrote: 
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> > > On Friday, August 28, 2020 at 12:27:25 AM UTC+5:30, Barry Scott wrote: 
> > >>>> On 27 Aug 2020, at 18:00, Muskan Sanghai <muskan... at gmail.com> wrote: 
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> > >>> I would be really thankful if someone can suggest me how can I generate subtitles file (srt format) from a video or audio without using Google cloud and AWS. 
> > >> What do you know about how subtitles work with video? Do you mean you want to extract the bitmap subtitle data from a MPEG video? 
> > >> 
> > >> Barry 
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> > > Thank you Barry for your reply, 
> > > I just know the basics and I want to extract subtitles from a MPEG video and then put the subtitles in that same video. Subtitles can be of any format but it should be convenient for the entire procedure. 
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> > It seems you are looking for an App to do this work? 
> > I searched the web and saw this. 
> > 
> > https://www.openshot.org/ 
> > 
> > I have not used this app, maybe it’s a starting point for you. 
> > 
> > Barry 
> >
> Not familiar with Openshot, but it's worth looking into. 
> Alternatively, I'd definitely recommend ffmpeg for anything like this 
> sort of job. But if you actually need to OCR something, then you may 
> need to do some scripting work. I don't have code to offer you, but it 
> would involve FFMPEG to lift the images, something like Tesseract to 
> do the actual OCRing, and then you'd write the rest of it yourself in 
> Python. 
> 
> Other than that, this probably is something best done with a dedicated 
> movie editing tool, not Python. Use what exists. 
> 
> ChrisA
I want to extract subtitles from a MPEG video (which does not have any previous subtitles) and then add them to the same video . So is it possible to do it with some scripting. Actually I tried to find the same features in FFMPEG but couldn't.