any .u3p subtitle station?

Hello,
I've recently started to work as a translator on some subs and I use Aegisub on my personal desktop computer.

However, as I sometimes have a 1 or 2 hour break during the day, I would have liked to bring some "work" at work Laugh

This is why I've made the acquisition of a USB Flash Drive with a U3 feature that I'm configuring right now, enabling me to bring a little bit of my applications to work, but it looks like I can't install Aegisub on it. Crazy

And I don't know of any subtitle stations that could be installed on my device, hence my question in the title: does anyone know of any subtitle programmes in .u3p format that could be of use?

edit I also tried to convert a couple of subtitle workstations into .u3p through "Package Factory" but with no success as the conversion either failed or it was the installation on my usb device that did.

Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 10:19 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Don't know if it will work but could you use a programme like PackageFactory for U3 1.0 to convert the applcation to run on your flash drive?

I've never heard of Aegisub and only just started to use subtitle workshop 2.51.

Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 10:22 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Thanks freezspirit, but I guess that you've posted just when I was editing my post.

Package factory failed.

Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 12:31 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Shadow Hexagram-dono - have you tried the non .exe file and just use the compressed rar files available? I used to use that at my external HD during my trips outside of town.

Edit : darn - looks like the site removed the .rar files for windows and sticked with the .exe releases Tongue

the .rar were mostly prebuild releases but honestly usable :3

Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 1:20 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

thanks zeldAIS, if I can get a hold on the .rar files, I'll give it a try. But I'll definitely keep the idea in mind just in case I come across another workstation that proposes them.

Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 10:07 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

I don't completely understand the logic of this topic...

I would assume that the purpose of pursuing the use of U3 drives is to bypass desktop security and run your unapproved applications. Most workplaces I've seen lock their PCs down so that users cannot install software. And on systems that I've designed and implemented, you can't even run setup.exe, autorun, or other non-approved EXE filenames. Reading the U3 specifications, it seems that you must still install the U3 software onto the PC before running the launchpad, which requires admin or power user privileges which most users don't have on work PCs. It also requires uninstalling the U3 software from the host PC. And, when you disconnect the thumb drive, it may leave traces of the launchpad software on the PC, allowing tech support to detect the use of the software (and possibly discipline the user.)

Before pursuing this direction of deviating tech support and the limitations of your work PC, I'd do more reading.

--- groink

Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2008 5:15 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Sorry groink, but I just don't completely understand the logic of your answer...

But ok, I'll put it simply:

logic of this topic: to carry both my work and my application with me.

Bypassing computer securities? Didn't even cross my mind. But professionals do use these computers (and let me insist on the plural form, as there is more than one in my workplace) for more important work that I can do on them, without having people like me polluting the hard drives that they generously lend me with unnecessary things.

edit: Groink, I appreciate your generous offer in trying to help me hacking the network at work, but don't force yourself, or at least if you do, do it for somebody else. Really, I just need to know of an application that will install on my usb device, and nothing else.

Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2008 8:59 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2008 1:27 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Thanks a lot for the piece of advice, Groink, and I'll keep this in mind. But the fact is that having already acquired this device, it would have been nice and helpful to know of any station that could have run on it, without having me to bring a laptop or buy a pda. The lighter the better.

Anyway I'll I have a look at Thinstall and see if this solution can work.