PlayPhrase returns None

[kelciour]

D:\Movies\English\playphrase>playphrase -i "D:\Movies\English\E_H_2020.mkv" -v -s "Grandpa" None

Originally posted by @raj6996 in https://github.com/kelciour/playphrase/issues/6#issuecomment-703132850

[kelciour]

@raj6996 what the output of playphrase -i "D:\Movies\English\E_H_2020.mkv" _init_? And take a look at "D:\Movies\English\". The script should be able to find "E_H_2020.srt" and write a new file, E_H_2020.txt, that will be used to search for phrases.

[kelciour]

@raj6996 Ignore the previous comment. Try this one at first,

playphrase -i "D:\Movies\English\" _init_

and then

playphrase -i "D:\Movies\English\" -v -s "Grandpa"

[raj6996]

D:\Movies\English\playphrase>playphrase -i "D:\Movies\English\" _init_
Usage: playphrase -i <media_dir> <phrase>

Init: playphrase -i <media_dir> _init_

Additional options:
-ph, --phrases GAP_BETWEEN_PHRASES   move start time of the clip to the beginning of the current phrase. Value is optional (default=1.25 seconds)
-l, --limit        maximum duration of the phrase (default=60 seconds)
-p, --padding      padding in seconds to add to the start and end of each clip (default=0.0 seconds)
-e, --ending       play only matching lines (or phrases)
-r, --randomize    randomize the clips
-o, --output       name of the file in which output  of 'grep' command will be written
-d, --demo         only show grep results
-a, --audio        create audio fragments
-v, --video        create video fragments
-vs, --video-sub   create video fragments with hardcoded subtitles
-s, --subtitles    create subtitles for fragments
-m, --mpv-options OPTIONS   mpv player options

D:\Movies\English\playphrase>playphrase -i "D:\Movies\English\E_H_2020.mkv" -v -s "Grandpa"
None

D:\Movies\English\playphrase>

no file create E_H_2020.txt
but I used bat script it works to make this txt file. something really strange for me.

Phrase: _init_
D:\Movies\English\E_H_20.srt
Phrase: grandpa
WARNING: number of '.srt' and '.txt' files doesn't match. Maybe you need to use 'playphrase <media_dir> _init_'.
Number of clips: 1
Phrase:

[kelciour]

I'm not sure what happened, but init should be wrapped with underscores, i.e. it should be _init_, not just init, e.g. playphrase -i "D:\Movies\English" _init_

And the srt file and the video file should have the exact same name.

[kelciour]

Ah, okay, this is just the markdown syntax, though it's strange that it didn't work and you see usage instructions instead of something else, at least it should output D:\Movies\English\E_H_20.srt

[kelciour]

If you have a folder "D:\Movies\English" with the following files,

• E_H_2020.mkv
• E_H_2020.srt

at first, run playphrase -i "D:\Movies\English" _init_ and it should output srt filenames that were converted to txt,

D:\Movies\English\E_H_2020.srt

and the folder will look something like this,

• E_H_2020.mkv
• E_H_2020.srt
• E_H_2020.txt

After that, playphrase -i "D:\Movies\English" grandpa should work and the script will try to find grandpa in E_H_2020.txt.

[raj6996]

actually it github issue, _ change to italic. I edited with quoted on previous post. I also put subcut lua script. Here is screenshot. https://imgur.com/ZFSUPO7

[kelciour]

Thank you. Please remove the last \ from the path to the media folder, i.e. try playphrase -i "D:\Movies\English" _init_

[raj6996]

Though it created TXT file, but same issue happened. None?

[kelciour]

It looks like grep command doesn't work for some reason. Though it's strange that it works from the bat file. I'll update the code and get back to you.

[kelciour]

I've uploaded a new release and it should be fixed now - https://github.com/kelciour/playphrase/releases/tag/v1.2.4