My reason for this:
I am compiling a list of functionalities for documentation purposes.
One of the questions that has been asked is whether CC support exists.
My findings:
xine supposedly has support designed by one of the xine developers,
Christian Vogler -
http://osdir.com/ml/linux.ubuntu.devel
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
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
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
Acce
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 implem
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
editin
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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