[mythtv] status off subtitle support for internal player

[Steven]

Ian Caulfield schreef:

> On Sat, 19 Nov 2005, Steven wrote:
>
>> I was wondering I anybody could tell if the internal player will ever 
>> be able to support subtitle files. I don't mean embedded in the mpeg 
>> stream but external (.srt or other) files.
>
>
> If anyone gets round to writing a codec to read/write the various 
> subtitle file formats, then I imagine it's quite likely. If you're 
> interested in coding this yourself, I suggest you look at implementing 
> this as an ffmpeg codec, like the current subtitle codecs.
>
> An alternative might be re-encoding your subtitle files into dvd or 
> dvb subtitle format and then multiplexing them in with your media 
> files (although I think this only works from mpeg PS/TS containers).
>
> Ian

I would use this mainly for avi mpeg4 files. I was wondering, because 
mplayer is also based (I think) on the ffmpeg code, how hard it would be 
to port their subtitle code to myth's internal player.

Steven