[FFmpeg-devel] ogg kate text subtitles support (patch)

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On Mon, 24 Oct 2016 10:52:14 +0200
u-9iep at aetey.se wrote:

> worth to mention:
> 
> On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 10:25:44AM +0200, u-9iep at aetey.se wrote:
> > > >            https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/3039  
> 
> The ticket refers to a sample with graphical subtitles. This is _not_
> being solved by the proposed patch.
> 
> A sample with text subtitles can be seen e.g. at
>  http://people.xiph.org/~oggk/elephants_dream/elephantsdream-with-subtitles.ogg
> It is well decodable with the patch applied.
> 
> Text subtitles in ogg kate are a straightforward way to put srt-like data

Note that srt supports simple HTML-like tags.

> into ogg. Multiplexing kate into ogg is not addressed by the proposed
> patch, but is otherwise easily done by external tools. Such tools are
> not applicable as much during playback, that's why demuxing support
> is most important.
>