[mythtv] New MPEG2 commercial-cut code ready for testing

[Stuart Auchterlonie]

On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 10:15:48AM -0800, Geoffrey Hausheer wrote:
> On 11/16/05, Paul Wheeler wrote:
> > Geoffrey,
> >
> > Did you ever have any luck with getting the subtitles back in? Will
> > this be too difficult/time consuming to do? Are you planning to look
> > into it at all?
> >
> No this hasn't happened, and probably won't until after the code is
> merged with mythtranscode.  It shouldn't be TOO difficult, as there
> are only minor changes in my code to handle it.  The real problem will
> be supportingit in libreplex (no support at all right now), and from
> what I understand, there are several different subtitle encoding
> methods, which might make supporting it there trickier.  I also don't
> know if I have access to the relevant documentation on how they are
> coded, which would certainly make it a lot harder to implement.  I'll
> have to dig around and see what I have.
> 

The utilities behind mythburn seem to be able to pull out the
subtitle stream and make them useful as a DVD subtitle, so it
has been done for some situations.

As for the documentation, much of the DVB subtitle stuff was
decoded with the libs found in ffmpeg/libavcodec etc, so it's
in there somewhere.

Stuart