Re: Closed-Captioning Support

[Bryen <suseROCKS bryen com>]

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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---Bryen---