[UTILITY RELEASE] Dreamcast FMV Auto-Subber 1.6

[derek (ateam)]

I decided to put together a little toolkit for batch SFD re-encoding with subtitles. This is based on the tools I wrote for the English translation patch of Birdcage of Horrors.

You can download the utility at either link below, as well as read detailed usage instructions.
https://github.com/DerekPascarella/Dreamcast-FMV-Auto-Subber
https://segaxtreme.net/resources/dreamcast-fmv-auto-subber.353/

The entire process is designed to be as easy as possible.

• Place original SFD video files in the "input" folder.
• Place accompanying SRT subtitle files in the "input" folder.
• Launch the "autosubber.exe" program.

There's also a "config.ini" file for customizing a range of subtitle text settings, all of which are explained in the GitHub readme.

See example output below.

 

[derek (ateam)]

derek (ateam) updated Dreamcast FMV Auto-Subber with a new update entry:

Updated to version 1.1

• Version 1.1 (2024-10-01)
  • Added option for custom subtitle text color.
  • Fixed bug preventing use of non-integer outline color value (e.g., 000000 was permitted but not FFFFFF).
  • Eliminated use of ffprobe to query video dimensions (now using ffmpeg).

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[derek (ateam)]

derek (ateam) updated Dreamcast FMV Auto-Subber with a new update entry:

Updated to version 1.2

• Version 1.2 (2024-11-01)
  • Fixed bug where font_face, font_color, and outline_color configuration options could be erroneously flagged as invalid.

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[derek (ateam)]

derek (ateam) updated Dreamcast FMV Auto-Subber with a new update entry:

Updated to version 1.6

• Version 1.6 (2025-03-30)
  • Added support for automatic subtitle scaling by aspect ratio when using the ASS format.
• Version 1.5 (2025-03-30)
  • Added ASS subtitle format support.
• Version 1.4 (2025-03-24)
  • Added aspect_ratio configuration option to manually define target aspect ratio at which video will be rendered by game software, which is used to calculate horizontal scaling of subtitles (was previously locked to...

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