[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 0/2] RFC: TEXT subtitle decoder

[JULIAN GARDNER]

----- Original Message -----
> From: Philip Langdale <philipl at overt.org>
> To: ffmpeg-devel at ffmpeg.org
> Cc: 
> Sent: Friday, 25 May 2012, 17:30
> Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 0/2] RFC: TEXT subtitle decoder
> 
> On 22.05.2012 22:10, Philip Langdale wrote:
>>  Based on the discussion over the last few days, here is an initial
>>  pass at a TEXT decoder. It's probably not in a condition to go in
>>  directly, as we'd probably want to rename srtdec to textdec, and
>>  someone's going to want me to modify the SRT demuxer to emit this
>>  TEXT format rather than raw SRT packets (which I don't really mind
>>  but I'd rather not hold up the decoder on redoing the demuxer)
>> 
>>  Philip Langdale (2):
>>    matroskadec: Write duration into packet for TEXT subtitles.
>>    srtdec: Add TEXT subtitle decoding mode.
>> 
>>   libavcodec/allcodecs.c    |    1 +
>>   libavcodec/srtdec.c       |   25 ++++++++++++++++++++++---
>>   libavformat/matroskadec.c |    2 +-
>>   3 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> Would anybody like to comment?
> 
> My overall goal here is to get MPEG4 Part 17 subtitle support into
> ffmpeg, and particularly, get to a point where you can remux an mkv
> file into an mp4 one and transfer all the important content (hence
> my other patch to fix chapter handling in mp4). Even with a working
> subtitle encoder, we still need to be able to extract the subtitles
> from the source file in the first place, which doesn't work without
> this set of patches.
> 
> I'm aware of all the other discussion around overall subtitle handling
> (and I'll note that we already 'up-convert' to ASS internally, so 
> I'm
> not sure why that's being discussed like a new thing) but pragmatically
> speaking, there's no reason that resolving that wider problem has to hold
> up all work on subtitles.
> 
> When I get a chance, I'm going to push a branch to github with the actual
> Part17 encoder/decoder; what I've got today works fine but it's still 
> too
> rough (and no, I won't have style support in the initial cut)

But what about DVB Subtitles which are bitmap based, anybody looking, apart from me, into this?

Also as i posted before i wanted to do a minimal Teletext Decoder, just for subtitles, and this would work with the text based subtitles.

joolz