General Information =================== Gaupol is an editor for text-based subtitle files. It supports multiple subtitle file formats and provides means of correcting texts and timing subtitles to match video. The user interface is designed with attention to batch processing of multiple documents and convenience of translating. Gaupol contains aeidon, a separately installable general-purpose Python package for reading, writing and manipulating text-based subtitle files. See the file "README.aeidon" for details. Gaupol is free software released under the GNU General Public License (GPL), see the file "COPYING" for details. Dependencies ============ Gaupol requires Python [1] 2.6 or greater and PyGTK [2] 2.16 or greater. Optional dependencies include: gst-python [3] and pocketsphinx [4] -- required for speech recognition; PyEnchant [5] 1.4.0 or greater -- required for spell-checking; PyGtkSpell (part of gnome-python-extras [2]) -- required for inline spell-checking; iso-codes [6] -- required to translate language and country names; Universal Encoding Detector [7] -- required for character encoding auto-detection and MPlayer [8] or VLC [9] -- recommended for preview. For dependencies required only during installation, see the file "INSTALL". [1] http://www.python.org/ [2] http://www.pygtk.org/ [3] http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/ [4] http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/ [5] http://pyenchant.sourceforge.net/ [6] http://pkg-isocodes.alioth.debian.org/ [7] http://chardet.feedparser.org/ [8] http://www.mplayerhq.hu/ [9] http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ Running ======= To try Gaupol from the source directory without installation, use command "bin/gaupol". Installation is, however, necessary for mimetype integration, application menu entry and user interface translations. For installing Gaupol, see the file "INSTALL".