[haiku-development] Re: Video Mixer

  • From: Rene Gollent <anevilyak@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 08:29:57 -0500

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 4:20 AM, Stephan Aßmus <superstippi@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Also, when we want to add subtitles we will need to be able to merge 2
>> video streams (video + subtitle)
>
> But here I think it's better to render the text using BView drawing, since
> only then it will be crisp independent of the video resolution.

That's not always possible. In the case of things like DVDs for
instance, the subtitles are actually supplied as an already rendered
video stream, and not text that the player has to manually render, so
here something more like what David proposed would be necessary.

Regards,

Rene

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