[mythtv] PATCH: enhanced closed caption support

[Lonnie Hutchinson]

We could do that, especially for roll-up captions, but but the pop-on
closed captions contain positioning info that is designed to avoid
obscuring parts of the scene thew user needs to see (faces, gestures,
other captions, etc), indicating who is speaking, etc. Of course we
could ignore this info, but doing so would be bad in my opinion.

Roll-up captions are typically used when the captioning is done realtime
(news, sports, live or unscripted), and usually contains minimal or no
positioning info. putting these in a nice osd type container would be
appropriate, especially if it was semi-transparent.

I am trying to make the captions as standard as possible, once that is
done I may consider enhancements like this. More likely I will find some
other part of MythTv that I think needs work and move on to that.
 
Here is a link to the FAQ that tought me almost all I know about closed
captioning. If you're interested I suggest you take a lok at it.

http://www.robson.org/capfaq/look.html

Lonnie

On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 15:11, Ben Brown wrote:
> I'd submit a patch, but I don't think I have the know how, so let me
> start by trying to clarify.  I assume your using some of the osd library
> to draw the CC to the screen.  Isaac is working on making this osd more
> flexble by creating containers that can have their characteristics set
> with an XML file.  What I'm suggesting is that we add to this XML a CC
> container. Then individuals could specify how the CC information is
> displayed on the screen.  So if I wanted to move the CC to the upper
> right and have black text on a white background and double the font
> size, I could.
> 
> Ben
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lonnie Hutchinson [mailto:chinacat at chinacat.org] 
> Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2003 5:48 PM
> To: ben at handcoder.com; Development of mythtv
> Subject: RE: [mythtv] PATCH: enhanced closed caption support
> 
> 
> I don't quite know what you are proposing, can you clarify/submit a
> patch?
> 
> On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 13:05, Ben Brown wrote:
> > What might be a good idea, is if you used the new osd stuff to set the
> 
> > CC container.  This would allow people to easily change how the CC 
> > displays, and have it match the rest of the osd theme.
> > 
> > Ben
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mythtv-dev-bounces at snowman.net 
> > [mailto:mythtv-dev-bounces at snowman.net] On Behalf Of Lonnie Hutchinson
> > Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2003 2:25 PM
> > To: mythtv-dev at snowman.net
> > Cc: ijr at po.cwru.edu
> > Subject: [mythtv] PATCH: enhanced closed caption support
> > 
> > 
> > This patch includes:
> >         Gregorio Gervasio's patch for roll-up captions
> >         captions are white text on black background
> >         better suport for positioning.
> >         
> > I suggest that you also use the monospace font Isaac added to cvs a 
> > few days ago.
> > 
> > Next up: color and italics. I don't have an ETA since things at work 
> > are pretty insane right now.
> > 
> > Lonnie
> > 
> > 
> >         
> > 
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