[vlc-devel] Re: [PATCH] Subtitles Support Again

[Aaron Mady]

I do intend to keep looking at this, however, I have been busy with
other stuff for the past few weeks.  Hopefully I'll have some free time
again shortly and will continue to do so.

Also, about the SoC subtitle support...having proper integration with
libass/asa should solve most VLC subtitle problems, and I would
recommend that being the focus of the SoC project.

Aaron Mady

-----Original Message-----
From: Derk-Jan Hartman [mailto:hartman at videolan.org] 
Sent: 03/05/2007 4:28 PM
To: vlc-devel at videolan.org
Subject: Re: [vlc-devel] Re: [PATCH] Subtitles Support Again

On 8-feb-2007, at 18:08, Aaron Mady wrote:
> 	I downloaded the source for asa yesterday and intend to start
> looking further at integrating it into VLC today.  I'll also probably
> take a further look at libass as well today (assuming I get a bit more
> free time here in a bit), but I agree, incorporating one of those  
> would
> probably be a much better solution.
>
> Aaron Mady


Have you been/will you work on this ? Or are you abandoning your  
efforts ?
Another user Roman Bednarek apparently is also interested, perhaps  
you guys can collaborate.

DJ



> -----Original Message-----
> From: vlc-devel-bounce at videolan.org
> [mailto:vlc-devel-bounce at videolan.org] On Behalf Of Jean-Baptiste  
> Kempf
> Sent: 02/08/2007 2:39 AM
> To: vlc-devel at videolan.org
> Subject: [vlc-devel] Re: [PATCH] Subtitles Support Again
>
> On Wed, Feb 07, 2007, Aaron Mady wrote :
>> Honestly though, maybe one of the previous patches would be a better
>> idea.  Looks like I may be looking at trying to integrate the asa
>> project () into VLC for subtitle support instead of continuing to  
>> hack
>> at the current code, so using my (or rataime's) previous patch might
> be
>> a better stopgap solution for un-breaking GG fansubs and hiding
> comments
>> properly.
>
> Well, I think that maybe we should use an external library to parse  
> and
> display those subtitles, because our freetype renderer can't do now  
> all
> what is needed by those .ass, especially overlaping detection and some
> other things, and it would not need to redevelop it from scratch.
>
> We don't have a lot of choice in the libs that we can use:
> * libass (!) that is part of mplayer, but exists in a standalone  
> version
>   http://sourceforge.net/projects/libass/. libass is very mature and
>   should render those subtitles correctly
> * asa, is a new library, that is slower, but currently under heavy
>   development, should support streaming and support some additionnal
>   subtitles. Here is some code that uses that lib
>
> https://spaceboyz.net/svn/aegisub/trunk/aegisub/ 
> subtitles_provider_csri.
> cpp
>
> Check that for comparison:
> http://asa.diac24.net/wiki/index.php/Compatibility
>
> I got some .ass samples from gg, some are old and good, other are bad
> and designed to break VLC.
>
> -- 
> Jean-Baptiste Kempf
> http://www.jbkempf.com/
>
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