Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Nikolaj Olsson - Subtitle Edit
Hi ndjamena,
I can see you know stuff about text in blu-ray subs... do you know anything about the specs for this?
I would like to add support for importing these into SE.
Best regards
Nikolaj
|
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by ndjamena
God… I’d been sitting around thinking of trying to get better processing of TextST subtitles into Subtitle Edit but had to consider the consequences.
I’ve been told by two different sources that they have access to the TextST specs and that they’d be willing to share them with anyone who would like to write a decoder…
But… If you’re just going to write a decoder to convert TestST to srt or ass not only will you be losing some of the formatting options that can’t be reproduced in any other subtitle format, you’ll also be contributing to the ultimate demise of the codec.
The codec is in a very fragile state, and could be snuffed out quite easily. I’m not even sure how many discs have the things on them, but it would be nice if those few disc that have them could have some chance of having them play at some point…
What are the chances of you writing an actual ENCODER… that would actually HELP the standing of the codec.
>> At the risk of being annoying… 608 captions still don’t decode properly from an m4v using 3.4.7, iTunes is the only decoder I have access to that hasn’t been discredited yet… and I wish I could write the damn thing myself… but, any news?
|
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Nikolaj Olsson - Subtitle Edit
Hi ndjamena,
I've got some info about TEXTST so I'll look more at it tonight or hopefully very soon.
I guess I could try to make a export to TEXTST too (like many other export formats in SE), but I'm not sure what is required to merge them with a video.
Gotta go...
Best regards
Nikse
|
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Nikolaj Olsson - Subtitle Edit
Hi ndjamena,
I cannot see why SE should not have textst support - it would probably help understanding/testing of the decoding which will be a good thing.
Of course it would be nice to have export too - can mkvtoolnix merge these text subtitles in mkv files?
I've succeeded in having plain text imported into SE from textst (code needs to be cleaned up and allow for split m2ts packages), but the format is quite advanced like ass/ssa with both header styles and inline styles + multiple regions. Also, the formats seems to be at least 8 years old...
About the mp4/m4v I'm actually stuck at extracting the texts from the boxes... I cannot seem to find any info about how many texts are there and where  (some subtitles works and other are just different)
Best regards
Nikolaj |
I've realised that switching to email whenever something important crops up just gives people the impression that I don't do anything, don't know anything and doesn't help them understand anything either.
The words "properly muxed" have been thrown at me twice already now. Did no one read the streaming section of the specs? Or did they just not consider how it affects muxing and tagging?