I'm trying to add support for closed captions in ffmpeg, namely cea608 and
cea708. Unlike normal subtitles, these are embedded in the video frames
themselves rather than a separate track or file. As a first step I try
to write
bitstreams filters for extraction and inserting closed captions into
h.264 and
mpeg2 videos. For cea608, I use .scc files to represent the cea608 data.
Later an interpreter and producer of scc files can be made as a subtitle
codec.
I have already written a cea 608 tools for my employer, but that is in
python, so not suitable for inclusion in ffmpeg, so this will be a
new implementation.
I'm currently writing the extraction filter and I had hoped that I could use
it as a filter with parameters as follows.
ffmpeg -i vid_with_cc.ts -acodec copy -vcodec copy -bsf
cea680_extract?scc=out.scc -f null /dev/null
This is not possible, since bitstream filters don't have parameters. The
main
problems can be summarized as follows:
- The lack of parameters means that I don't have a way to specify where
to store
the .scc file. How can I do that?
- I can't find a way to get out the timestamps (pts and dts) in a bitstream
filter. The cea 608 and 708 data is stored in pts order in the frames, so
I need to reorder the data before writing them to file. Also, the scc
files
have timestamps, so I need timestamps for that too. I can only find the
timebase in AVCodecContext, and the AVFormatContext or AVPacket is
not passed
in to the bitstream filter. The AVPacket is a deprecated field, but it is
NULL, so of no use. Is there something I have overlooked here?
I may be missing something, and it is of cause possible that the
bitstream filter
approch is misguided, but as far as I can tell, that is the best option.
Does anyone
have a clear idea of how this should be done?
-Gisle
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