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ohliuv
25th February 2003, 11:56
is it possible to use cyrillic in .rt subs?

karl_lillevold
26th February 2003, 22:50
I had to ask someone else about this, and here is the reply:

No, you can't in RT. But you can using plain text (.txt) files.
This is done one of two ways:
(1) play a Cyrillic-encoded .txt file in RealOne (in a SMIL file
if you want our text renderer to do the work and not IE's) and make
sure the system you're playing it on is Cyrillic by default.
(2) play a Cyrillic-encoded .txt file in a SMIL file in RealOne
and use the <param> tag as a child element of the <text> element
to set the charset, like this:
<param name="charset" value="koi8-r"/>
You need to have Cyrillic fonts installed on your system for this
to work.

Send me a PM if you would like some samples.

Note: you can add other characteristics to plain text via the param
element in SMIL 2.0, such as setting the font size, color, transparency,
...etc. You can also play a series of plain text files, via a <seq>
in SMIL 2.0 to make "timed" text that can emulate most of what people
do with RT. You can also embed the text right in the SMIL 2.0 if you
want to avoid having too many streams.

This is new to RealOne and thus won't work in older Real Players.

Hope that's helpful (and not too much info -)

ohliuv
27th February 2003, 11:21
thanks for the support, Karl :)