[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Subtitle display is based on audio - should be video

Nicolas George nicolas.george at normalesup.org
Sat Oct 2 15:50:59 CEST 2010


Le primidi 11 vendémiaire, an CCXIX, gillou.ray at free.fr a écrit :
> the subtitles demuxing code currently base its timestamps on audio
> time. That is, when an A/V desync occurs, you see the subtitles of what
> you are hearing, not what you are seeing. I think this is wrong because
> subtitles timestamps are based on video, typically synced with scenes
> changes.

Some subtitles are here to translate for you something written in a foreign
language in the video, but most of them are used to help you understand what
you are hearing. For those, I think that sync with audio is more important
than sync with video.

Regards,

-- 
  Nicolas George
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