Jörn:
Yes, I recall the forced subtitle issue, and I still want to pursue
that as well. This should be fun. I'll see what I can work out.
Allan
Jörn Reder wrote:
"Allan N. Snider" wrote:
Yes, one would think the subtitle index designation (and color) must
be specified somewhere. The standalone dvd players (almost) always get
it right. Wouldn't this task be more suited for dvd::rip, instead of
transcode though? Transcode knows only where the vob files exist, while
dvd::rip understands the entire dvd structure, (and location of the
IFO's etc).
Yes you're right. dvd::rip would determine the colors (by using an
external program, because dvd::rip and personally me don't know how to
get the colors from the IFO files... ;) and then pass these to
transcode.
Even so, dvd::rip uses subtitle2pgm (from subtitleripper),
and it also seems to guess the index components. The subtitle previewer
will show solid text for some, outlined text for others, etc.
I'll do a little hunting on it.
subtitle2pgm (resp. subtitle2vobsub) uses the IFO files, so it should be
possible to grab the colormap determination code from there. AFAIRC some
time ago there was a thread on the dvdrip-users mailing list about this
topic [... searching in the archive ...] and, hey, I see _we_ talked
about this already ;) (although it was about forced subtitles):
http://www.exit1.org/archive/dvdrip-users/2006-02/msg00000.html
I would be happy to make the corresponding changes to dvd::rip, as soon
as we have a program to extract the colormap and a transcode filter,
which processes this colormap (either as command line options or as an
external configuration file or something like that).
Regards,
Jörn
