Viewing subtitles with embedded HTML

Simon Skogh simon at swedishdrunkard.com
Wed Sep 19 00:04:06 UTC 2007


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Ben Edwards wrote:
> I am trying to watch a film with a subtitle file (.src) but it has
> html in the file that is not rendered, simply displayed.  So I get
> something like:
> 
> <font color="#ffffff"><i>Spain, 1944</i></font>
> 
> Displayer on the screen.  Does anyone know of any video players that
> can handle this or a simple util to remove the html.
> 
> Regards,
> Ben
> 

The first thing that pops in my head about removing the HTML is PHPs
strip_tags function.

http://php.net/strip_tags

I'd imagine Python and other languages supply similar functions that
might be easier to utilize if you do not already have PHP / PHP-cli
installed.


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