[xine-user] Re: subtitles revisited

[ChristianHJW <chr...@ma...>]

"Michael Roitzsch" <mr...@us...> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> Hi Morten,
> > I'm building rpms of libxine-1.0.0.beta4 and xine-ui-0.9.18 right as
> > I type this, so I haven't tried them as yet.
> > The Saint.avi
> > The Saint - Norwegian.srt
> > The Saint - Danish.srt
> > The Saint - German.srt
> > (and some more...)
> That would acquire a lot of memory, since the subtitles are played in
> separate streams. (They are separate files, so they need a separate
> input plugin, separate demuxer, separate stream fifos and separate
> decoder.)

matroska A/V container will have full support for different language subs
suppport, and store it all in one file.

> > This makes me think of another bit regarding subs...
> > When selecting subs, you get a number (0, 1, 2, ...), whilst on DVDs,
> > a textual label is stored (on the ones I've looked on atleast)... Are
> > there any real issues which prevent these labels from beeing used?
> I guess it is fairly difficult to recognize the language of a subtitle
> file.
> Michael

In matroska all subs will have a langúage tag

Christian
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