[MPlayer-dev-eng] A proposal for the OSD

[D Richard Felker III]

On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 12:38:28PM +0100, Dirk wrote:
> cool.. i don't like writing long messages but i see myself forced to throw 
> a few words into this OSD discussion...
> 
> 1) OCR! -- i know there's a tool in TOOLS.. but why not include that into 
> the main dev tree... it would be a FEATURE to capture ascii subtitles from 
> subtitles encoded in the movie... don't give me "uahhh.. another library" 
> thing.. another lib won't hurt anymore.. 

I was actually planning this, but not for subtitles, rather for the VF
layer. The idea would be to play Japanese console games with tv-in and
convert text to romanji for beginners. :))

Rich