[vlc] Re: Closed-captioning support

[Derk-Jan Hartman]

On vrijdag, apr 18, 2003, at 07:10 Europe/Amsterdam, Joseph J Jolton 
wrote:

> VideoLan folks,
>
> I love your player - it totally rocks!
>
> However, I'd like to make a request, assuming it's technically 
> feasible - is
> it possible for you to add support for closed-captioning on DVDs (and
> possibly other incoming video formats)? This is the information 
> encoded on
> line 21 of an NTSC video signal. What I'm asking for isn't the same as
> subtitling - there are many DVDs out there that are closed-captioned, 
> but
> not subtitled, and as someone who is hearing-impaired, such a feature 
> would
> be of great value - particularly as Apple has neglected to include this
> capability in their own DVD player software.
>
> Is this possible? How can I go about lobbying the developers of VLC to
> include this feature?

It is most definetly possible, and it's on our bug/todo list as well. 
There just needs to be a developer to pick it up some time and 
implement it.

Derk-Jan Hartman
---
Videolan - VLC media player
Derk-Jan Hartman (thedj at users.sourceforge.net)
Co-Developer of the MacOS X port of vlc
http://www.videolan.org/vlc

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