[vdr] Hearing-impaired DVB subtitles

[Klaus Schmidinger]

On 03/07/08 17:26, Petri Helin wrote:
> Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
>> 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?
>>
> 
> I believe JJussi is mixing things up a bit. What he describes is audio 
> subtitling, which YLE has chosen to send labelled as a Dutch audio 
> track. It seems that they have started to use Dutch also for Finnish 
> subtitling for Finnish spoken programs. The reason for that choice I 
> believe is the absence of Dutch language in Finland and hopefully not 
> the misconception of all the Dutch being hearing impaired... :)
> 
> The instructions for people who want to use the audio subtitling is that 
> they should choose Dutch as the primary audio language and Finnish as 
> the secondary. Obviously they had the same in mind for DVB subtitles.

Broadcasters - gotta lov'em...

Klaus