#!/usr/bin/python """ Script to offset the time in subtitle files in the .srt format. Script takes in the filename and the offset (in milliseconds) to add or subtract from the subtitles. It then writes the new subtitles to the same file. Alternately you can specify the filename as '-' and then the script will read input from stdin and write output to stdout. """ __version__ = '1.0' __author__ = 'Einar Egilsson' __date__ = 'March 20th 2008' __url__ = 'http://tech.einaregilsson.com/2008/03/20/subtitle-fixer/' import sys, re, datetime MILLISECOND = 1 SECOND = 1000 * MILLISECOND MINUTE = 60 * SECOND HOUR = 60 * MINUTE def offset_time(time, offset): """ Takes in list with [hour, minute, second, millisecond] and returns it with offset milliseconds added and normalized """ ms = sum(map(int.__mul__, time, [HOUR, MINUTE, SECOND, MILLISECOND])) ms += offset return [ms / HOUR, ms % HOUR / MINUTE, ms % MINUTE / SECOND, ms % SECOND] def fix_subtitles(lines, offset, output): """ Takes in list (lines) with all the lines from the subtitle file, adds offset milliseconds to it and writes the file to output. """ for line in lines: pattern = r'(\d\d):(\d\d):(\d\d),(\d\d\d) --> (\d\d):(\d\d):(\d\d),(\d\d\d)' match = re.match(pattern, line) if match: nrs = [int(nr) for nr in match.groups(0)] start = offset_time(nrs[:4], offset) end = offset_time(nrs[4:], offset) output.write('%02d:%02d:%02d,%03d' % tuple(start)) output.write(' --> ') output.write('%02d:%02d:%02d,%03d\n' % tuple(end)) else: output.write(line) def print_header(): print 'Subtitle Fixer v%s' % __version__ print 'Author: %s' % __author__ print __url__ print '' if __name__ == '__main__': if len(sys.argv) != 3: print_header() print 'Usage: suboffset.py ' print 'Use - for filename to read from stdin and print to stdout' sys.exit(1) offset = int(sys.argv[2]) file = None if sys.argv[1] == '-': #Read from stdin and print to stdout fix_subtitles(sys.stdin.readlines(), offset, sys.stdout) else: #read from file and write to same file file = open(sys.argv[1], 'r') lines = file.readlines() file.close() file = open(sys.argv[1], 'w') fix_subtitles(lines, offset, file) file.close() print 'Finished adding %s milliseconds to %s' % (offset, sys.argv[1])