Looks great. Seems like it'll be handy for searching quotes (which is hit or miss with most search engines; I mostly start directly with Yarn these days)
How are you doing the transcripts? Just pulling from the extracted .srt files?
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How are you doing the transcripts? Just pulling from the extracted
.srtfiles?
Almost. My Blu-ray rips are subtitled with PGS/SUP, which apparently uses an image for subtitles instead of simple plain text like SRT. So I found a program called sup2srt which uses an OCR engine to convert the subtitle images to SRT, which I can then load into the database that this site uses. But, there are some issues with that:
- Obviously, OCR is imperfect. It did a great job overall, but there were still a lot of things that need to be fixed
- Most seasons, the subtitles are ALL CAPS.
- There are a few scenes with hardcoded subtitles (such as the scene in Queen of Jordan in which Jack/Liz are whispering). These lines are not part of the subtitle file
I made some quick Python scripts that go through all the script files to fix common mistakes, but I am also slowly going through each script individually to manually revise them.
Wow! Very impressive. I can't give feedback beyond that yet.
Oh, one thing, loading the Animations page slowed my whole browser down for a minute or two. (Laptop, Zen Browser 1.13.2b, Linux Mint 22.1.)
Did it slow down just while the page was still loading, or for a minute or two after the page had finished loading? The Animations page does download 17MB of thumbnail images, which may be a bit much.
Just while the page was loading.
I think I should make it not download all 17MB of thumbnails when the page is loaded, and instead download each thumbnail individually as it is scrolled into view.
Sounds good.