Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > On 09/04/07 23:45, Luca Olivetti wrote: >> En/na Klaus Schmidinger ha escrit: >> >>> I haven't looked into the code of the ttxt subtitle plugin, yet, but >>> currently my idea is to convert the ttxt subtitles into DVB subtitles, >>> so that VDR only needs to handle one type of subtitiles for recording >>> and live viewing. >> Aren't dvb subtitles just bitmaps? If so, converting the text to a >> bitmap for recording doesn't seem a good idea to me. > > Well, in the end they would have to be displayed as bitmaps, anyway. > Besides, the DVB subtitle specs also provide a means of having > character strings instead of bitmaps. I'm not sure yet how it's > going to be, but I'm certainly not going to have two (or three, with > "Closed Captioning") different subtitling methods throughout VDR. > There's _one_ mechanism, based on "ETS 300 743", and anything else > will be converted to this as early as possible. I don't think converting text to bitmaps is a good idea, you'll lose the ability to format the text at your will, and the ability to export them as .srt or .sub files. -- Anssi Hannula _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
