[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] handling of subtitles

[Vitor Sessak]

Hi

Benjamin Larsson wrote:
> Hi, the XBMC project is thinking of running a GSoC task of creating a
> unified subtitle handling lib:
> 
> http://xbmc.org/wiki/?title=GSoC_-_Unified_Subtitle_Parser
> 
> While the wiki page might not make sense, what support has FFmpeg for
> text subtitles and if there is none how should it be implemented ?

I think the part about libavfilter was inspired in this thread: 
http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2008-February/042721.html

Also, FFmpeg has some support for subtitles (see libavcodec/dvdsub*, but 
I don't know very well the details).

-Vitor