Just a thought... Obviously if you're using Totem, and have a srt file or similar, it shows up perfectly well.
As for CC vs subtitles, I find it complex myself - as being in UK, we don't have CC on TV's or DVD's etc (for example you'll only find CC in use on Region 1 DVD's mostly) but mostly rest of world doesn't as far as I have found out. (I also don't like CC myself but prefer subtitles as they're easier to modify to suit my liking) Interestingly enough, this subject - while not related to Gnome, is a sore thumb for many deaf people regarding BBC's iPlayer - by using WMV videos, but to date I've not managed to get subtitles working (it's broken - it was broken, then got fixed...then it's broken again) but that's Windows XP. On Gnome, I'm limited to Flash streaming, where there are *no* subtitles at all. (I'm deaf myself btw, there's a thread or two about it on BBC's See Hear forums, See Hear is a TV show for the deaf - http://bbc.co.uk/seehear ) But anyway, sorry about that waffling - when talking about CC for videos - what exactly are you looking for? Getting CC off videos as streamed via satelite/cable or something like that or generic video files (MPEG or something?) with inbuilt CC. I wanted to clarify what kind of videos you was talking about, as I've mentioned - CC isn't used in many countries outside of USA (UK being one of them - we get it by Teletext for analogue channels and via MythTV I seem to get subtitles just fine with digital Freeview - although am aware it's not Gstreamer that MythTV is using). Cheers Joseph Gwynne-Jones MBCS On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 18:15 -0600, Bryen wrote: > 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! > > >>> > > >>> > >
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