[MPlayer-users] Teletext subtitles

[D Richard Felker III]

On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 08:12:08PM -0800, alvin.mpeg at ns.linux-1u.net wrote:
> 
> hi ya rich
> 
> > On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 11:51:31PM +0100, tarass at club-internet.fr wrote:
> > > 
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > does mplayer mencoder support teletext subtitles, or is someone working 
> > > on that ?
> > 
> > You mean the closed-caption subtitles on DVDs? Or in live streams
> > captured by v4l? The former is supported, but the latter isn't AFAIK.
>  
> i'm looking for either:
> 
> a) encode the movie ( *.mpeg or *.mpeg4 ) with any text 
> 	- at least it'd work, if its possible to do, but requires
> 	planning on the text message to display
> 
> b) adding the a random text messages on top of the *.mpeg[4] 
>    would be even better vs having to re-encode the original mpegs
> 	- having mplayer mix the movie and the text messages
> 	would be best :-)
> 
> "text message" can be simple things like "stock tickers" at the
> bottom of the movie ... or news blurp ... while the mpeg is playing
> 
> we have a very high interest level on either solution

Hmm, this isn't teletext, just using MPlayer's OSD. I expect it would
be pretty easy to make it so you could feed the OSD text from a fifo
or something.

In fact you could already do it with the bmovl filter, but then you
have to render the text yourself and pass it in as an image.

Rich