[FFmpeg-devel] [updated PATCH] Make srtenc accept text-only (type SUBTITLE_TEXT) subtitles

[Clément Bœsch]

On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 01:08:57PM +0200, Wolfram Gloger wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Thanks for your comment.
> 
> Clément Bœsch <ubitux at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Currently, we make all the text decoders output to SUBTITLE_ASS (the
> > common internal format), and actually it seems no subtitles text encoder
> > will deal very well with SUBTITLE_TEXT (no git grep match all over the
> > code base). Is it too much pain to make the decoder output ASS? See
> > lavc/subviewerdec.c for a simple example using the ASS helpers.
> 
> Ok, will try.
> 
> I am not sure my TV supports ASS markup, though.
> With plain UTF8 text, it surely works well.
> 

What do you mean by that? If your decoder outputs ASS, the SubRip encoder
& SRT muxer will be able to produce a full text subtitles (with SubRip
markup though when possible iirc, such as <i>, <b> etc).

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-- 
Clément B.
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