[vlc-devel] Crystal HD for 1080i MPEG2 and closed captions on low-end system

[Devin Heitmueller]

On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 5:01 PM, Patrick Jackson <pejackson at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you for the prompt response.
>
> Doing some more testing with the software-only (i.e. no Crystal HD card) method, it seems that the closed-caption blending is really taxing the CPU. The way the letters are all blended to block the least amount of picture is very nice, but is there a setting that would make this easier on the CPU (like a black-barred background)?

I actually did a bunch of patches to the EIA-608 decoder so that it
now conforms to the spec in terms of caption placement (and fixing
other bugs too), as well as introducing a black background under the
text (which is what most people who actually use closed captioning
would expect).

The patches are for vlc-1.1.5, but I suspect they would probably
forward port without much difficulty:

http://kernellabs.com/hg/~dheitmueller/vlc-1.1.5/shortlog

It would be great to see these upstreamed, but I just haven't had a
chance to do it.

Devin

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