Design a program for me. Earn money!

Hello,

I'm new here, and I have an idea for a program I need. I thought C++ is the best language for programming such a program.

Lately I have translated several educational movies/documentaries to Spanish. I hate it when Hollywood does not provide additional languages and subtitles for their films - but most directors of educational movies have little money to hire a translator. So what about a program that, when you feed it the original script and the translated script (in whatever languages they might be), will output subtitles of whatever movie it playing at the moment?

For instance, if I'm watching a documentary or whatever and feed the translated text to the program, I'm now watching the movie with subtitles.

I haven't found software like this. I'm not talking about kareoke
software or something like that, but a program that can:

1) be in sync, line to line, with the movie's original language (usually by the native language subtitles or by closed captioning) or,
2) if the movie doesn't have closed captions or anything, I could feed in the original script (provided by the director or by the tedious chore of writing everything down) and the translated
script and have subtitles correctly displayed. In any case, the program should be in sync with the movie.

Again, I don't know of any software like this. This could be big with the anime crowd, who often times have to watch the original movie in Japanese with crummy English subtitles. Or just great to fool around with.

If someone could make something like this, it would be great. There are some attributes that I would love to see on that program. It should:

1) be small in size (<500 kb or so, but it should fit in a floppy).
2) use a small amount of memory and should reside in the system tray.
3) be in sync with the movie, even if I stop the film and resume it halfway (i.e. the autoresume feature of PowerDVD)
4) be compatible with Windows and Mac.
5) be free, or low cost.

Any thoughts on this?

Get ready for some interesting responses

Hey dude you have an interesting plan but you need to do a lot more than that much of thinking to make it a success .
Step 1 : Get near exact time of the dialogs.
Step 2 : Make your own media player or find out some way to get the WMP timers
Step 3 : Constantly monitor that the timings of the media player.


I guess you know now how to do it
Bye.

How much are you going to pay for this?

Cottonpicker, I deleted my $-eyeballs logo!

i think you can do this already in linux but i don't know about windows.

check this link

http://xinehq.de/index.php/faq#AVISUBTITLES

How much am I willing to pay - well give me a figure you are willing to do it for

I am not a coder so I posted a question on a programming forum. Obviously, it is more complicated than what I have layed out but if someone is serious about this, the first step would be to post a blueprint of how to pull this off.

Again, it is just an idea that I had and I am not a coder (I do have a website and know HTML, but that is different). Even though I am a medical student now, I did a stint of research in nanotechnology and these guys can really pull some tricks.

If I could sit there and plan a blueprint on everything necessary on how to develop a chip that can monitor blood sugar, or detect specific kind of gases (think of a gas plant emergency), then I can reasonably expect at least one intrepid coder that says, "hey, I can do that."

Besides, this beats the pants out of kareoke and will drive the anime DVD crowd nuts

How 'bout some more interesting responses?

Moved from the C Programming forum.

i just came across this:

http://freshmeat.net/projects/subtitles/?branch_id=50459&release_id=182151