[FFmpeg-devel] movtext decode/encode improvements

[John Stebbins]

On Fri, 2020-04-10 at 09:50 -0700, Philip Langdale wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Apr 2020 23:28:49 +0000
> John Stebbins <jstebbins at jetheaddev.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> > Essentially yes.  We've had our own mov text encoder and decoder in
> > HandBrake for years.  I added support for using ffmpeg for decoding
> > subtitles last year but the movtext decoder wasn't up to the same
> > level as ours, so we weren't using ffmpeg for that yet. I'm
> > following
> > up that work from last year to add subtitle encoding with ffmpeg
> > and
> > dropping our decoder and encoder for mov text.
> 
> That's great - and I really appreciate you taking the extra effort to
> feed this back! Of course, I can't help but be greedy: Have you
> looked
> at subtitle positioning? I think that's the biggest functional gap
> left.
> 
> > I'm also almost finished writing a PGS subtitle encoder for ffmpeg
> > ;)
> 
> Very nice!
> 

Subtitle positioning is on my todo list.  But it wasn't supported in
HandBrake's mov text encoder, so I didn't need to add it for feature
parity.  I've got a bunch of subtitle TODOs for both HandBrake and
ffmpeg.