Re: [xine-user] feature request (?)

[Rick H. <ri...@ku...>]

On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 09:28:05PM +0100, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> 
> > I haven't been able to work on it lately but I did have it working with
> > my test dvd and a patched Xine 0.4.3 + dxr3.  There was also another
> > person who got it working without a dxr3, although not very well.  It
> > generates spu data from an xml script (using freetype) and inserts it
> > into Xine's spu buffer.
> >
> > I'm planning to revisit it when I have more time and rewrite it as a
> > plugin.  I like the xml format and would make time to work on tools for
> > that (or parsers for other formats, etc) if someone else wanted to work
> > on a plugin.
> These subtitle files, how do they provide sync info?
> Do they sync based on video file position ?
> Is there a url anywhere with some samples, and some explanations as to the
> format ?

Check the scripts directory in the .tar.gz, there's a README and example.

Each line of dialogue in the script has a timestamp (00:00:00.00) that
is translated into a pts value by the program.  There's also a shift
value specified in the script for each chapter so you can adjust for
where the original script was synced to, etc.  You can specify and font
as well, but I don't recall if I ever got to adding colors, italics,
etc.

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