[vdr] Re: Subtitle recording

[Lauri Pesonen <lauri.pesonen@firsthop.com>]

On Fri, 2002-06-14 at 11:45, Dave Chapman wrote:

> I expected someone to say that Finland DVB-T was the same as UK DVB-T.

IIRC it's the same, but I'm not a 100% sure about it. I have a DVB-C
myself.

> > I've been looking at the DVB subtitling and SI specs, but haven't really
> > yet figured out how to implement it. 
> 
> I think the most important thing to implement first is recording of the 
> subtitles.  I've studied the subtitling specification, and although it looks 
> complicated, I am confident of being able to implement it.  I also think that 
> the DVB card's OSD should be capable of displaying the subtitles - obviously 
> subtitles will have to be disabled when the OSD is active (that's how my 
> "real" DVB-T receiver works).

The libsi library that comes with VDR contains code for subtitling
parsing. Maybe it could be used in the implementation.

br, Lauri