[vdr] Hearing-impaired DVB subtitles

Klaus Schmidinger Klaus.Schmidinger at cadsoft.de
Fri Mar 7 16:49:22 CET 2008


On 03/07/08 06:21, JJussi wrote:
> On Friday, 7. Marchta 2008 00:37:06 Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> 
>> The info.vdr file contains
>>
>> X 3 11 fin
>> X 2 03 fin
>> X 3 03 dut
>>
>> which indicates that audio is in Finnish, and there are two subtitle
>> tracks. The one with type 03 looks like any other subtitle
>> track I've seen so far, like
> 
> That dut track is "subtitle in sound".. And that way it should be sound track 
> and not subtitle.
> It's special. It's sound track where computer is reading subtitles in lound, 
> for those who cannot read.
> Only YLE use those.

But that track contains plain old DVB subtitle bitmaps.
How can a computer read them out loud?

Klaus



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