VLC - Precise Timer to the Millisecond
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Hello everyone
When working with video, audio, or subtitle files, it is necessary in terms of quality to be able to operate with maximum precision. However, apart from dedicated editing software, which is sometimes out of reach, few video players will offer displays beyond the second.
MKVToolnix, commonly used for this kind of work, is free and very practical, allowing you to work on each track separately to the millisecond. However, beforehand, it is useful to have a video player capable of the same precision.
Subtitles have a tolerance that will accommodate a quarter or even half a second, and that's it. But to synchronize the audio, a significantly higher precision is required, and players only display to the nearest second.
Here’s a way to make the most well-known of them, VLC, 1000 times more precise.
I will show you how to add a "timer" that will display milliseconds.
Here’s a screenshot of the upper right quarter of the VLC screen with the small "add-on" that I propose you install.
It displays
The total duration of the video (hh;mm;ss)
A clock (hh:mm;ss) useful to avoid dating your captures if necessary
But especially, the "t" moment of the pause (hh:mm:ss:000) to the millisecond
https://www.cjoint.com/c/JCcxxh7wUKa
(Screenshot taken at 00h19’51"(fixed clock) of a video with a duration of 1h40’31’’ stopped at 7’'133/1000ths)
Here’s the procedure to follow for its installation
Go to the site https://addons.videolan.org/browse/cat/
In the search bar in the center at the top (not the one on the left), type "Time v3.2"
Once on the page, download it to obtain a .zip file
Go to your "downloads" folder (where the zip is) and create a new folder in which you will copy/paste the zip.
Right-click and "Extract here" For this operation, the (free) software "Winrar" will do the job
2 folders will appear. Extensions and Intf
We will open these two folders and respectively copy/paste what they contain into the corresponding identical folders of VLC; let me explain
Using the File Explorer
Go to the folder C:/Program/VideoLAN/VLC/Lua
Open Lua and you will now see the 2 folders mentioned above, Extensions, and Intf
Return to the extracted zip
Open the "extensions" folder
Copy the item "time_ext.lua"
Paste it into the VLC "extensions" folder
Return to the extracted zip
Open the "Intf" folder
Copy the item "time_intf.lua"
Paste it into the VLC "intf" folder
Close everything.
Now that the add-on is installed, open the VLC application
Choose the "View" tab
At the bottom, you should see "time v3.2 (intf)"
Click and save
There you go, you've made it
You just have to close and restart VLC by opening your favorite video and a nice window will appear with your timer displaying milliseconds, along with a second clock, which is not optional.
If you don’t want to display this millisecond timer by default, you have the option to enable/disable it by choosing this option in the View / time V3.2 tab
Now you can have perfectly synchronized audio and subtitling "to the millimeter."
I have intentionally been as precise as possible so that everyone can best accomplish this manipulation.
I made an effort to transcribe this YouTube video into English
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuZ8Wj3Qjdk&ab_channel=AboutDevice
I hope I have met your expectations.
When working with video, audio, or subtitle files, it is necessary in terms of quality to be able to operate with maximum precision. However, apart from dedicated editing software, which is sometimes out of reach, few video players will offer displays beyond the second.
MKVToolnix, commonly used for this kind of work, is free and very practical, allowing you to work on each track separately to the millisecond. However, beforehand, it is useful to have a video player capable of the same precision.
Subtitles have a tolerance that will accommodate a quarter or even half a second, and that's it. But to synchronize the audio, a significantly higher precision is required, and players only display to the nearest second.
Here’s a way to make the most well-known of them, VLC, 1000 times more precise.
I will show you how to add a "timer" that will display milliseconds.
Here’s a screenshot of the upper right quarter of the VLC screen with the small "add-on" that I propose you install.
It displays
The total duration of the video (hh;mm;ss)
A clock (hh:mm;ss) useful to avoid dating your captures if necessary
But especially, the "t" moment of the pause (hh:mm:ss:000) to the millisecond
https://www.cjoint.com/c/JCcxxh7wUKa
(Screenshot taken at 00h19’51"(fixed clock) of a video with a duration of 1h40’31’’ stopped at 7’'133/1000ths)
Here’s the procedure to follow for its installation
Go to the site https://addons.videolan.org/browse/cat/
In the search bar in the center at the top (not the one on the left), type "Time v3.2"
Once on the page, download it to obtain a .zip file
Go to your "downloads" folder (where the zip is) and create a new folder in which you will copy/paste the zip.
Right-click and "Extract here" For this operation, the (free) software "Winrar" will do the job
2 folders will appear. Extensions and Intf
We will open these two folders and respectively copy/paste what they contain into the corresponding identical folders of VLC; let me explain
Using the File Explorer
Go to the folder C:/Program/VideoLAN/VLC/Lua
Open Lua and you will now see the 2 folders mentioned above, Extensions, and Intf
Return to the extracted zip
Open the "extensions" folder
Copy the item "time_ext.lua"
Paste it into the VLC "extensions" folder
Return to the extracted zip
Open the "Intf" folder
Copy the item "time_intf.lua"
Paste it into the VLC "intf" folder
Close everything.
Now that the add-on is installed, open the VLC application
Choose the "View" tab
At the bottom, you should see "time v3.2 (intf)"
Click and save
There you go, you've made it
You just have to close and restart VLC by opening your favorite video and a nice window will appear with your timer displaying milliseconds, along with a second clock, which is not optional.
If you don’t want to display this millisecond timer by default, you have the option to enable/disable it by choosing this option in the View / time V3.2 tab
Now you can have perfectly synchronized audio and subtitling "to the millimeter."
I have intentionally been as precise as possible so that everyone can best accomplish this manipulation.
I made an effort to transcribe this YouTube video into English
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuZ8Wj3Qjdk&ab_channel=AboutDevice
I hope I have met your expectations.
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Hello,
Thank you for the tip with VLC, but... software like Aegisub dedicated to subtitling, or another, also allows you to create synchronized subtitles with the video stream very precisely, I think.
There's no need to have multiple tools (player + "thing" to write the subtitles) since this one and others surely have everything you need, it seems to me ;-)
Best regards
Thank you for the tip with VLC, but... software like Aegisub dedicated to subtitling, or another, also allows you to create synchronized subtitles with the video stream very precisely, I think.
There's no need to have multiple tools (player + "thing" to write the subtitles) since this one and others surely have everything you need, it seems to me ;-)
Best regards