u should write a tut. I've been trying to rip timings from chinese dramas forever, and still can't figure out avisubdetector.
just press the [Automatic Mode] option if you only want to copy timing and no text,
like you wanna do for your chinese hardsubs videos (example)
http://cyb3rfr34k.thebotkiller.ath.cx/AviSubDetector/AVISubDetector_english.rar