[FFmpeg-devel] Rendering text-based subtitles

[Nicolas George]

L'octidi 8 prairial, an CCXIX, Chris Burel a écrit :
> Where does the rendering code really belong?  In the ass decoder?  In the
> ass encoder?  Somewhere else entirely?

IMHO, the most logical place would be libavfilter:

- one filter convert text subtitles to bitmap subtitles;

- one filter to forcefully compose overlapping bitmap subtitles;

- one filter to overlay bitmap subtitles on top of a video.

Currently, AFAIK, libavfilter has no support for subtitles filters, but it
does not seem very hard to add. Adding support for subtitles filters to the
ffmpeg command line tool would probably require a little more work.
Unfortunately, I fear that adding support for mixed subtitles+video filters
to the command line tool would be much harder.

Regards,

-- 
  Nicolas George
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