[MPlayer-dev-eng] Closed captions

[compn]

On Wed, 4 Jun 2008 03:36:13 +0000, "Bryan Henderson" <giraffedata at gmail.com> wrote:
>On 6/3/08, Vladimir Voroshilov <voroshil at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2008/6/3 compn <tempn at twmi.rr.com>:
>>> On Sat, 31 May 2008 03:17:47 +0000, "Bryan Henderson"
>>> <giraffedata at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>Teletext also displays the same kind of stuff as CC on the screen, so
>>>>the display end should be similar.  But I looked and couldn't find
>>>>anything I could use, other than some ideas.
>>>
>>> i assume you've seen the big teletext patch:
>>> http://onebithq.com/root/mplayer/teletext
>>>
>>
>> This patch (adapted, and only for b/w and gray modes) was committed to
>> mplayer some time ago.
>>
>> I wonder can  Bryan reuse existing teletext code ?
>
>Well, that's the code I was referring to above when I said, "I looked
>and couldn't find anything I could use, other than some ideas."  A lot
>of it I simply couldn't make any sense out of -- at least not in less
>time than it took to write what I needed from scratch.
>
>There _is_ a little overlap, but I wonder if makes sense logistically
>to have shared code, because of the fact that few people have
>knowledge, interest, and test facilities for both Teletext and NTSC
>CC.  I don't.  Maybe it's better to be able to work on one without
>working on the other.

i see libvbi supports both teletext and cc
http://zapping.cvs.sourceforge.net/zapping/vbi/src/

and it looks like the code is combined, altho i'm not sure by how much.
anyways, post your patch(es) and we'll figure it out from there.

-compn