[haiku] Re: GSoC: Writing native interfaces for ported applications
- From: Axel Dörfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 16:05:15 +0200
On 04/14/2010 03:33 PM, David McPaul wrote:
> On 14 April 2010 23:13, Axel Dörfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 04/14/2010 02:30 PM, David McPaul wrote:
>>> Yes text subtitles would be rendered as bitmaps. Bitmap subtitles
>>> might actually be tricker as it would be seen as a seperate video
>>> track.
>> I don't see a difference there as long as you always render bitmaps,
>> anyway. In both cases I would assume they are published as additional
>> video tracks that just need to be marked as subtitles somehow.
> That is the main issue then, on a DVD you have multiple video tracks
> and multiple audio tracks and need to select the appropriate track to
> play. I think subtitle tracks are marked differently (as
> subpicture?), if not there will need to be a way to distinguish a
> subtitle video stream from a normal video stream.
Well, that would be something the DVD reader must do - it knows the
difference between them, obviously.
What's AFAIK missing is a flag that marks a media_format as such.
Bye,
Axel.
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