Re: Closed-Captioning Support

[Peter Korn <Peter Korn Sun COM>]

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!
> > >
> > >