General Information
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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 is free software released under the GNU General Public License
(GPL), see the file "COPYING" for details.


Dependencies
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Gaupol requires Python [1] 2.5.1 or greater and PyGTK [2] 2.12 or
greater. Optional dependencies include: PyEnchant [3] 1.1.3 or
greater, required for spell-checking; iso-codes [4], used to translate
language and country names used by the spell-checker; Universal
Encoding Detector [5], required for character encoding auto-detection
and MPlayer [6] or VLC [7], 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://pyenchant.sourceforge.net/
 [4] http://pkg-isocodes.alioth.debian.org/
 [5] http://chardet.feedparser.org/
 [6] http://www.mplayerhq.hu/
 [7] http://www.videolan.org/vlc/


Running
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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".
