SICP lectures fansub project

Remember the now-defunct SICP Subtitles project (sicptitles.org)? We're REviving it!

Anyone is welcome to join the project and help with transcribing, editing, and typesetting. We currently have lecture 1a transcribed and ready to edit, and someone has so far already completed 15% of lecture 1b.

We'll be reencoding to 640x480, it doesn't look too bad upscaled and you can actually read the text on the slides that way. Does anyone know whether the .mpg or .avi raws is the better quality?

Preview:
http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/8181/91132566.jpg

http://rechan.eu.org/satori-subs/

>>38
I'll request that you comply with the fansubbing industry standards, briefly explained in >>30 by another /prog/rider.
On the issue of upscaling:
I've only seen the avi/divx3 320x240/mp3(48khz mono 64kbps) encode of the lectures, but you should get the mpeg2 one and compare the quality. Overall, the video exhibits many issues due to it being an old capture, many issues might be hard to fix without nuking the rest of the video entirely(what's left of it), but if you're re-encoding, you might as well try a bit(don't try if you have no idea what you're doing). It's possible for the client to resize locally and get subtitles rendered at a higher resolution, but it's not exactly doable without user intervention. Given the theme of /prog/, it might be appropriate to code a patch for ffdshow and mplayer which allows it to read embedded settings stream from mkv and use them, it might be smarter than upscaling, and is a feature some fansubbers might have wanted, but never got around to implementing it.

On the issue of subtitle format:
Using ASS would be easier on the eyes than SRT, as long as you choose a (dialogue) good font(and embed it in the mkv).

On the issue of audio format:
It's already bad enough, leave it as it is.


I wish they would consider REMASTERING the SICP lectures, but it might not be possible at all if the only recordings are some VHS tapes.