[mythtv-users] Subtitle settings?

[Jim Stichnoth]

On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 11:45 AM, Stefan D <raptorjr08 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Don't know how i could miss that about teletext :P I really was(am) stupid
> =)
>
> Has anything changes recently? Because the subtitles is much bigger than
> they were before, maybe 6 months ago. I know that they have been smaller.
>

Very little has changed in a long time with that form of teletext, apart
from specifying the font name in the .xml file rather than a mythfrontend
settings page.

One of the teletext commands is to display double-size characters.  I think
most providers specify double-size (but being in the U.S., I don't know for
sure).


>
> But sure, if it is not supported i just have to wait until support is
> added, if ever. But the biggest problem is the lack of the Swedish
> characters. I've been trying different fonts, and different encodings. And
> i did have the Swedish characters before my "accidental" upgrade of Ubuntu
> and MythTV.
>
> Is there anything I can do, debug wise, to find out f.ex. what encoding i
> should use? Now i have ISO-8559-1 (also tried ISO-8559-4) but still no
> Swedish characters. And what i have found on the web, that should contain
> Swedish characters?
>

The encoding setting is only for subtitles loaded from external text files,
usually .srt or .sub files.

Are you sure you're installing your font files correctly and in the right
place?  Look in your log output for lines like this:
  "Failed to load '%1', got '%2' instead"
And if you run with "-v gui:debug", that log message will be followed by a
list of available fonts known to MythTV.

Also keep in mind that if characters are missing from the current font, Qt
will silently substitute "equivalent" characters from a font it thinks is
similar.

If you still can't get the fonts working, you may want to upload a small
sample recording somewhere that demonstrates the problem.

Jim


>
>
> On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 6:03 PM, Jim Stichnoth <stichnot at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 2:01 PM, Stefan D <raptorjr08 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Thank you for your help, but I am feeling really stupid. I can't get
>>> anything to work.
>>>
>>> Since i don't know what font to use that have the Swedish characters I
>>> thought I should first get my semi transparent background.
>>>
>>> Found an exampel from another theme that first did this:
>>> <shape name="grey_background" from="provider">
>>>           <type>box</type>
>>>           <fill color="#000000" alpha="128" />
>>> </shape>
>>>
>>> Using mythfrontend -v vbi:debug I found out this:
>>> The file used is  Location:
>>> /home/stefan/.mythtv/themes/Mythbuntu/osd_subtitle.xml
>>> And the subtitle type used is:
>>> GetFont(family=teletext, prefix=teletext, orig pixelSize=20, new
>>> pixelSize=20 zoom=100) = face=Liberation Sans pixelsize=20 color=#ffffff
>>> italics=0 weight=50 underline=0 shadow=0 shadowoffset=(0,0)
>>> shadowcolor=#000000 shadowalpha=255 outline=0 outlinecolor=#000000
>>> outlinesize=0 outlinealpha=255
>>>
>>
>> OK, this would be the problem.  There's a big "Note" in
>> https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Osd_subtitle.xml that for the "teletext"
>> family, the only part of osd_subtitle.xml currently used is the font name.
>> This restriction (or more accurately, why it's not yet implemented) is for
>> a few reasons:
>>
>> 1. The teletext commands are pretty specific about setting foreground and
>> background colors (and whether the background is transparent), making it
>> hard to devise a way to selectively control some of the attributes.
>>
>> 2. Teletext has this interactive feature that other subtitle families
>> lack.
>>
>> 3. Teletext has non-textual "mosaics" which are like low-res graphics.
>>
>> That said, if the only customization you want (other than font choice) is
>> to change the transparency level of subtitles marked as non-transparent,
>> that would be much easier to fit into the existing model.  To hack it in
>> the source code by hand, look in teletextscreen.cpp
>> in TeletextScreen::SetBackgroundColor() for this line:
>>     m_bgColor.setAlpha((ttcolor & kTTColorTransparent) ? 0x00 : 0xff);
>> and change the 0xff value to 128 or whatever you like.
>>
>> Going forward, it seems like background alpha, text shadow, and text
>> outline may be properties that would make total sense to draw overrides
>> from osd_subtitle.xml.  Maybe other properties as well.
>>
>> Jim
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> mythtv-users mailing list
>> mythtv-users at mythtv.org
>> http://lists.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
>> http://wiki.mythtv.org/Mailing_List_etiquette
>> MythTV Forums: https://forum.mythtv.org
>>
>>
>
> _______________________________________________
> mythtv-users mailing list
> mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> http://lists.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
> http://wiki.mythtv.org/Mailing_List_etiquette
> MythTV Forums: https://forum.mythtv.org
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/attachments/20150505/3e137cba/attachment.html>