On 02/04/08 10:15, Tobi wrote: > Klaus Schmidinger wrote: >> I believe there is a patch for that, but that's not the way I want to >> implement it. > > Yes we have this patch in the (unofficial!) Debian package to support > the ttxtsubs plug-in. The Patch is maintained by Rolf Ahrenberg. > > http://www.saunalahti.fi/~rahrenbe/vdr/patches/ > >> I want to convert the incoming teletext subtitles to >> DVB subtitles, so that on the recording/display side we only need to deal with >> one type of subtitles. > > I think this shouldn't be too hard to do. Would you accept come > contributed coded that does this? All I can say is that I will look at such a patch (as time permits) and either use it directly, in a modified way, or not at all ;-). > Teletext subtitles are just in general > kinda ugly, because somtetimes even the announcement of the teletext > page for the subtitles isn't correctly implemented on the provide side. > This means, you need some way to configure the teletext subtitles page > per channel. This is one point that I really don't like about this. If there is an official way how the teletext subtitle page is announced, the broadcasters should use it - and not force the viewers to use ugly workarounds. >> (Besides, I guess some day teletext subtitles >> will become obsolete, anyway). >> > > I'm not sure about that. At least the ZDF here in Germany uses DVB > subtitles now, but I don't think the other broadcasters will follow very > fast. I believe the ARD is also looking into this. At any rate, using DVB subtitles would be the optimal solution. Klaus _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
