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   Veronica Olsen 🏳️‍🌈 (veronica@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jul-2026 19:16:12 JST Veronica Olsen 🏳️‍🌈

   I finally got around to working on a VobSub parser for my subtitle editor. VobSub is the subtitle format you find on DVDs by the way.

   It's a lot of fun to write these kind of parser, but unlike the PGS parser (Bluray format) I wrote, there is no official documentation for it, so I have basically been peeking at the parser code for SubtitleEdit.

   The code is coming along nicely. It can now read and parse the 2048 byte data blocks.

   https://github.com/vkbo/Subtle/blob/vobsub-support/subtle_gui/formats/vobsub.py

   #Python #Subtitles #DVD #VobSub

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     Veronica Olsen 🏳️‍🌈 (veronica@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jul-2026 19:16:12 JST Veronica Olsen 🏳️‍🌈

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     Sidenote: While writing this, the VSCode AI-driven auto-complete suggestions have been interesting to observe because there probably isn't that much public code out there that does this, but it clearly has it in the training data because it keeps suggesting extremely specific things that are usually a little bit off. It shows how problematic these tools can be when the suggestions aren't just some large scale average of implementations.

     (I escaped all of them because I am writing this my way.)