Got idea, what if.
Hook on file open, then read our prepared subtitle file and show text in dosbox screen.
Then everyone could make any translation of in-game video.
Aehm, timing problems and not everyone plays the same?
let's suppose that CPU is fast enough. what else ?
Good luck
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I used ProcMon to see what happened on video playback.
I used "Harvester" game, I see dosbox ReadFile, using 4kb blocks and show it decoded (delay?).
23:52:47,1279655 dosbox.exe 3748 ReadFile C:\games\harv_cd\GRAPHIC\FST\VIRGLOGO.FST SUCCESS Offset: 0, Length: 4096, Priority: Normal
...
590 times to ReadFile with 4096 byte blocksize until the end of file (2366 kb) or until ESC pressed.
23:52:58,5365083 dosbox.exe 3748 CloseFile C:\games\harv_cd\GRAPHIC\FST\VIRGLOGO.FST SUCCESS
Total - 11 sec, like the video length.
subtitle file will contain offset, text, time to show, for example:
0, Hello, 1
in the middle of playbak offset of read will be ~= 1 183 000
1183000, This is the middle of videofile, 1
I want to make subtitles for games.
done and works
For something like Harvester, it would probably be much easier to reverse-engineer the video format (assuming that hasn't already been done – it can't be something very unusual), insert the subtitles, and then re-encode the videos.
ok, but idea works
