[vlc-devel] Re: [PATCH] italic tag support fo MPL2 subtitles

[Derk-Jan Hartman]

On 22-feb-2007, at 8:49, Roman Bednarek wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, Antoine Cellerier wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure if this is relevant to what you're doing (and to the  
>> whole
>> "How do we store inline text styles in VLC" question), but parts  
>> of VLC,
>> like the subsdec.c module already use a text_style_t structure  
>> defined
>> in include/vlc_osd.h. It don't think that it's designed to be inlined
>> into text but it'd be a good idea IMO to see how you can integrate  
>> your
>> current patch with what's already been done concerning text styles.
>> AFAIK thedj did most of the work on that part of the text renderer  
>> so he
>> should be able to help.
>>
>
>    It is relevant, the goal is to get italic and other tags  
> supported, and that structure was designed to attach style to text.
>    I believe the current renderer uses color components in  
> text_style_t structure. I tried to use it to add italic support,  
> but I had problems with it, subtitle can be composed of different  
> subregions each with different text_style, but there is no good way  
> to layout this subregions. Text renderer adds a border to its  
> subregion (it must do it to correctly paint background), so  
> adjacent subregions could overlap. It would require a lot of work  
> and possible redesign to support all tags this way.
>    On the other hand, mbedding tags into text is simple, easy  and  
> also good enough for all subtitle styles. So I choosed the simpler  
> approach.
>    As I said before if it gets accepted I plan add MicroDVD style/ 
> color tags support and later some ssa styles.
>
> Regards
> Roman Bednarek

Have you been, will you work on this ? Or are you abandoning your  
efforts ?
I would love to know.

DJ

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