Peter, Thanks. You did lead me on some interesting paths and I found caption support available for RealPlayer and HelixPlayer. However, these players do not support DVD at this time.
>From what I've read on the Internet, gstreamer and xine both provide CC support. But, I cannot find out how to enable it whether through an option, config file or a plugin. No answers yet from either of those mailing lists. If I find more concrete answers, I'll let everyone know here. Thanks again, Bryen On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 13:26 -0800, Peter Korn wrote: > Hi Bryen, > > The media formats need to support captioning, and then the players must > be able to play it. RealMedia and QuickTime and WindowsMedia all > support caption encoding (in one fashion or another), and HelixCode will > render them. I don't know about other players. > > Regards, > > Peter Korn > Accessibility Architect, > Sun Microsystems, Inc. > > > Thanks Willie, > > > > Unfortunately that refers to subtitles which is an entirely different > > feature from Closed-Captioning. Need to be able to enable closed > > captioning when watching tv programs or DVD that has CC but not > > subtitling. Besides, I hate subtitles, they are a difficult to read > > poor implementation of captioning. :-) > > > > Besides, television programs aren't subtitled. > > > > But thanks... still working hard on finding the answer to this. > > Gstreamer claims to support it but won't answer me on their mailing > > list. oh well... > > > > > > On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 15:59 -0500, Willie Walker wrote: > > > >> Hi Bryen: > >> > >> I saw this come through the gnome-announce list recently: > >> > >> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2007-December/msg00028.html > >> > >> "Gnome Subtitles is a subtitle editor for the GNOME desktop. It supports > >> the most common text-based subtitle formats and allows for subtitle > >> editing, conversion and synchronization. > >> > >> * About: http://gnome-subtitles.sf.net/about > >> ..." > >> > >> Will > >> > >> Bryen wrote: > >> > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> I've been hunting high and low for answers to Closed-Captioning support > >>> on GNOME. Can anyone point me in the right direction? > >>> > >>> I have found that supposedly gstreamer and xine have built in > >>> closed-captioning (CC) but I have yet to see where to enable it. > >>> > >>> Many thanks! > >>> > >>> > -- ---Bryen--- _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
