On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 10:05:02 +0000 (GMT) Vincent Torri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled:
> > something interesting for subtitles is the 'halo' of the text, like that: > > http://avisynth3.unite-video.com/avs_text.png > > it is sometimes necessary to have that halo because the text can be > unreadable if the color of background is closed to the one of the text. > > I don't know if it is easily doable with evas or not. yes it is - there are text styles to add glow, shadows, (glow and outlines are the same just given well chosen colours) etc. :) > Vincent > > PS: that example has been done with feetype > > On Sun, 29 Oct 2006, Simon TRENY wrote: > > > On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 10:13:15 +0900, > > Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : > > > >> On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 22:44:07 +0200 Charles de Noyelle > >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled: > >> > >>> Hello, > >>> > >>> My post is about .srt subtitles in Emotion. > >>> > >>> I tried to look into the code, and I *think* that nothing is done > >>> to read subtitles. What I expected and look for is kind of > >>> > >>> EAPI void emotion_object_{subtitles,spu}_file_set ( Evas_Object > >>> *obj, const char *filename ) > >>> > >>> I saw the "emotion_object_spu_channel_count(Evas_Object *obj)" But > >>> I could not figure out what it was used for... DVD's subs ? > >> > >> yes - dvd subtitles are handled by libxine as video overlays - they > >> do work if turned on. there is no way to use external files. > >> > >>> The thing is that needs some changes in Emotion EAPI, and maybe, a > >>> such thing is not wanted (read subtitles in Emotion). > >>> > >>> What do you thing about it? Would that be easy to do? Is it > >>> necessary? > >> > >> i suggest first looking at gstreamer and xine api's to see if you can > >> put it there as the subtitles also need to be timed to the video. > >> > > I had implemented .srt support for eclair some times ago and it was > > working quite well but it is now broken since it still uses the old > > textblock API. I know that the API of xine allow to load external > > subtitles, and gstreamer's probably does too, but those substitles > > won't look as good as if we use an evas' text object to render them: > > xine and gstreamer directly render the subtitles in the YUV data, so > > when the video is stretched, the subtitles are stretched too. With > > evas' text object, we could also make the subtitles transparent, glow, > > cast a shadow, ... So I would probably be a good idea to make emotion > > render its own subtitles. > > > > Now there are several problems that I met when I implemented that in > > eclair. First the text encoding: Evas requires UTF-8 whereas .srt > > files doesn't seem to follow a standard: some times they uses 8-bit > > ascii, some times UTF-8, ..., and it's not specified in the files. So > > we would need to be able to auto-detect the encoding of a text. Is > > there a way to do that? And also, I noticed that when you render an > > incorrectly UTF-8 encoded text with Evas, Evas only renders the text up > > to the first incorrect character, the following characters are not > > rendered. It may be good to just ignore the incorrect character, and to > > continue to render the others (I don't know if it's easy to do though, I > > just know that GTK and QT do that so it should be possible :)) > > Other problem: there are a lot of subtitle formats (srt, ssa, txt, ...) > > so we would need a lot of loaders if we want to support them all. Srt > > seems to be the most used by far (and it is really easy to load), so we > > should probably start with it. > > > > I will try to add .srt support to emotion this week end. > > > > Simon > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-devel mailing list > enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel > -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 裸好多 Tokyo, Japan (東京 日本) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
