[vlc-devel] Re: [PATCH] styled subtitles support

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

On Fri, Mar 23, 2007, Bernie Purcell wrote :
>    Apologies in advance if multiple copies of this end up on the list. I've
>    been trying to email this in for a few days now, and it never seems to
>    come up in the list.

You don't have to excuse yourself. Our mail server and mailing-list
server has gone nuts. So lots of e-mails have not gone through it.

>    This patch follows on to an earlier one I made that displayed USF
>    subtitles in styled text. This one adds support for SubViewer (excluding
>    the metadata header information for which I can't find a specification),
>    MicroDVD, SubRip and VPlayer - ie. all the generics subtitle formats
>    except SAMI.
>    SAMI isn't straightforward, and the existing demux code strips out any
>    tags which might have once been present in its context. It isn't a trivial
>    job to pass the stylesheet information which can be contained in that
>    format. A major hurdle in passing it lies in the fact that its XML is not
>    well-formed.
>    Because I couldn't find specs for any of these formats except SAMI (and
>    ASS and USF) I made an executive decision to restrict the list of
>    supported tags to the same ones used by Matroska in the USF DTD -- as
>    explained in the comments in the code. If anyone has any corrections to
>    apply to this assumption I'd like to hear from them, though.
>    SSA/ASS is not included in this patch, but only because I haven't gotten
>    around to it yet.
Ok. We will read the patch soon. This week end I guess.
Last patch was a very good quality patch, but we had to do a few modifications
(two leaks and one double free, IIRC) to make it perfect.

About ASS/SSA, those subtitles are complex since they need a lot of
things. Instead of reinveting once again the wheel, there is a summer of code 
(and propositions) to integrate libass / asa or any other mean those
subtitles to VLC media player.

>    This also contains some bugfixes on the earlier submission.
>    Hopefully this time the patch will come out as ASCII instead of BINARY for
>    Jean-Baptiste. :-)
I hope so too :D

Thanks;
-- 
Jean-Baptiste Kempf
http://www.jbkempf.com/

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