From: Christian F. K. S. <Ur...@li...> - 2003-04-23 13:56:40
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On Wed, 2003-04-23 at 12:44, Bastien Nocera wrote: > On Wed, 2003-04-23 at 11:12, Bill Haneman wrote: > > On Wed, 2003-04-23 at 01:32, Benjamin Otte wrote: > > > > > People come and want SMIL for anything. SMIL is neither the right format > > > for playlists nor the right format to store subtitles. > > > > > > It's all we have for subtitles using media streams that don't support > > subtitling internally. Certainly it offers solutions to problems such > > as multi-language subtitles that are difficult to solve otherwise. > > Well, there's Subrip, SubViewer, MicroDVD, SubStationAlpha, and MPSub. > > > I am not saying that the SMIL grammar is great, but I am saying that > > it's what we have to work with at the moment. > > Well, there's already support in xine and ongoing work in Gst to support > the formats mentioned above. You still didn't answer my question as to > what was needed from the movie player. Does it only need to show > subtitles as video overlays? We have the following IRC log of a discussion between Wim and Bill on the topic of accessibility which I think mentions most of what the player needs to do: http://www.gstreamer.net/docs/gstaccess.php -- Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller <Ur...@li...> |