Re: [xine-user] subtitles over ASX?

[Daniel Caujolle-B. <seg...@cl...>]

Le Mercredi 08 Septembre 2004 10:38, Skliarouk Arieh a =E9crit=A0:
> Hello,
>
> >>>>In my home www-based video distribution project I have several movies
> >>>>with subtitles.
> >>>>
> >>>>Currently I generate .ASX file (from PHP) as follows:
> >>>><ASX version =3D "3.0">
> >>>>  <TITLE>home video</TITLE>
> >>>>  <ENTRY>
> >>>>      <ref href =3D "http://myhome.com/Tracks/AnInterestingMovie.avi"=
 />
> >>>> </ENTRY>
> >>>></ASX>
> >>>>
> >>>>What tag should I add to the .ASX file so xine would pickup subtitles=
 I
> >>>>want and play them along the .avi track?
> >>>
> >>> I don't know if subtitle support is part of the ASX specs (at least
> >>> from the one i read many many month ago). If you have the information,
> >>> i will be happy to add subtitle support in ASX playlist in xine-ui.
> >>
> >>AFAIK subtitle support is not part of ASX. But ASX allows you to set
> >>arbitrary parameters that (hopefully) will be taken into account by
> >>media player.
> >>I propose you to add to xine handling of parameter "xine_subtitle" and
> >>treat its value as URL to actual subtitle according to following exampl=
e:
> >>
> >><PARAM NAME=3D"xine_subtitle" value =3D
> >>"http://anwebsite.com/TwoWeeksNotice/TwoWeeksNotice-English.srt" />
> >
> >why not simply "subtitle" ?
>
> I thought that "subtitle" is too global and such tag can even exist in
> ASX spec. But do as you think is appropriate.

 Well, current CVS support (non official) subtitle in asx now, like this
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<entry>
 <ref href =3D "file.ext" subtitle =3D "subtitle.ext"/>
</entry>
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Cheers.
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73's de Daniel "Der Schreckliche", F1RMB.

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