Subtext

Subtext is a subtitle renderer that uses libass and ffmpeg.

sub.TextFile(clip clip, string file[, string charset="UTF-8", float scale=1, int debuglevel=0, string fontdir="", float linespacing=0, int[] margins=[0, 0, 0, 0], float sar=0, string style="", bint blend=True, int matrix, string matrix_s, int transfer, string transfer_s, int primaries, string primaries_s, int range])

TextFile renders text subtitles. Supported formats include ASS, JACOsub, MicroDVD, SAMI, SRT, WebVTT, and some other obscure ones.

TextFile has two modes of operation. With blend=True (the default), it returns clip with the subtitles burned in. With blend=False, it returns a list of two clips. The first one is an RGB24 clip containing the rendered subtitles. The second one is a Gray8 clip containing a mask, to be used for blending the rendered subtitles into other clips.

Parameters:

clip

Input clip.

file

Subtitle file to be rendered.

charset

Character set of the subtitle, in iconv format.

scale

Font scale.

debuglevel

Debug level. Increase to make libass more chatty. See ass_utils.h in libass for the list of meaningful values.

fontdir

Directory with additional fonts.

linespacing

Space between lines, in pixels.

margins

Additional margins, in pixels. Negative values are not allowed. The order is top, bottom, left, right.

sar

Storage aspect ratio.

style

Custom ASS style for subtitle formats other than ASS. If empty (the default), libavcodec’s default style is used. This parameter has no effect on ASS subtitles.

blend

If True, the subtitles will be blended into clip. Otherwise, the bitmaps will be returned untouched.

matrix

matrix_s

transfer

transfer_s

primaries

primaries_s

range

If blend=True, these will be passed to resize.Bicubic when converting the RGB24 subtitles to YUV. The default matrix is “709”.

sub.Subtitle(clip clip, string text[, int start=0, int end=clip.numFrames, int debuglevel=0, string fontdir="", float linespacing=0, int[] margins=[0, 0, 0, 0], float sar=0, string style="sans-serif,20,&H00FFFFFF,&H000000FF,&H00000000,&H00000000,0,0,0,0,100,100,0,0,1,2,0,7,10,10,10,1", bint blend=True, int matrix, string matrix_s, int transfer, string transfer_s, int primaries, string primaries_s, int range])

Instead of rendering a subtitle file, Subtitle renders the string text. Otherwise it works the same as TextFile.

Parameters:

text

String to be rendered. This can include ASS tags to enable rich text and animation.

style

Custom ASS style to be used.

start, end

Subtitle will be shown from start up until end. By default this will be for all frames in clip.

The other parameters have the same meanings as with TextFile.

sub.ImageFile(clip clip, string file[, int id=-1, int[] palette, bint gray=False, bint info=False, bint flatten=False, bint blend=True, int matrix, string matrix_s, int transfer, string transfer_s, int primaries, string primaries_s, int range])

ImageFile renders image-based subtitles such as VOBSUB and PGS.

ImageFile has two modes of operation. With blend=True (the default), it returns clip with the subtitles burned in. With blend=False, it returns an RGB24 clip containing the rendered subtitles, with a Gray8 frame attached to each frame in the _Alpha frame property. These Gray8 frames can be extracted using std.PropToClip.

Parameters:

clip

If blend is True, the subtitles will be burned into this clip, Otherwise, only the frame rate and number of frames will be obtained from this clip.

file

Name of the subtitle file. For VOBSUB, it must the name of the idx file. The corresponding sub file must be in the same folder, and it must have the same name.

id

Id of the subtitle track to render. There may be several subtitle tracks in the same file. If this is -1, the first supported subtitle track will be rendered. Use info=True to see a list of all subtitle tracks, including their ids.

Default: -1.

palette

Custom palette. This is an array of at most 256 integers. Each element’s least significant four bytes must contain the values for alpha, red, green, and blue, in that order, from most significant to least.

Additionally, the special value 2**42 means that the corresponding element of the original palette is used. This way it is possible to override only the third element, without overriding the first and second ones, for example.

An alpha value of 255 means the colour will be completely opaque, and a value of 0 means the colour will be completely transparent.

gray

If True, the subtitles will be turned gray.

Default: False.

info

If this is True, a list of all supported subtitle tracks found in the file will be printed on each frame of the output. The information printed about each track includes the id, the language (if known), the resolution, and the format.

Default: False.

flatten

If this is True, ImageFile will output a clip with exactly as many frames as there are pictures in the subtitle file.

If this is True, blend has no effect (no automatic blending).

Default: False.

The other parameters have the same meanings as with TextFile.

Example with manual blending:

subs = core.sub.TextFile(clip=YUV420P10_video, file="asdf.ass", blend=False)

gray10 = core.query_video_format(subs[1].format.color_family,
                              YUV420P10_video.format.sample_type,
                              YUV420P10_video.format.bits_per_sample,
                              subs[1].format.subsampling_w,
                              subs[1].format.subsampling_h)

subs[0] = core.resize.Bicubic(clip=subs[0], format=YUV420P10_video.format.id, matrix_s="470bg")
subs[1] = core.resize.Bicubic(clip=subs[1], format=gray10.id)

hardsubbed_video = core.std.MaskedMerge(clipa=YUV420P10_video, clipb=subs[0], mask=subs[1])

Example with automatic blending (will use BT709 matrix):

hardsubbed_video = core.sub.TextFile(clip=YUV420P10_video, file="asdf.ass")

Example with a custom palette and automatic blending:

def rgba(r, g, b, a=255):
    if r < 0 or r > 255 or g < 0 or g > 255 or b < 0 or b > 255 or a < 0 or a > 255:
        raise vs.Error("Colours must be in the range [0, 255].")

    return (a << 24) + (r << 16) + (g << 8) + b

unused = 1 << 42

src = core.lsmas.LWLibavSource("video.mp4")

# Override only the third element of the palette. Set it to some kind of green.
ret = core.sub.ImageFile(src, "subtitles.sup", palette=[unused, unused, rgba(0, 192, 128)])