[FFmpeg-devel] movtext decode/encode improvements

[Philip Langdale]

On Thu, 9 Apr 2020 23:28:49 +0000
John Stebbins <jstebbins at jetheaddev.com> wrote:


> Essentially yes.  We've had our own mov text encoder and decoder in
> HandBrake for years.  I added support for using ffmpeg for decoding
> subtitles last year but the movtext decoder wasn't up to the same
> level as ours, so we weren't using ffmpeg for that yet. I'm following
> up that work from last year to add subtitle encoding with ffmpeg and
> dropping our decoder and encoder for mov text.

That's great - and I really appreciate you taking the extra effort to
feed this back! Of course, I can't help but be greedy: Have you looked
at subtitle positioning? I think that's the biggest functional gap left.

> I'm also almost finished writing a PGS subtitle encoder for ffmpeg ;)

Very nice!

--phil