[gst-devel] GStreamer and Closed-Captioning support

[Zaheer Merali]

On 1/8/08, Stefan Kost <ensonic at hora-obscura.de> wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> Quoting Stefan Kost <ensonic at hora-obscura.de>:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Quoting Bryen Yunashko <byunashko at gmail.com>:
> >
> >> Can anyone send me information on whether gstreamer supports
> >> closed-captioning with gstreamer?  Particularly, I'm trying to find it in
> >> Totem.
> > Could you elaborate a bit what that is? Is it reading out subtitles?
> > Any pointers? I want to prepare a list of taks for the next google
> > summer-of-code application. This could be a potential subproject.
>
> Replying to myself:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed_captioning
>
> Bryen, do you have any info about how this differs from subtitles? Do
> you have some sample content that has closed captioning tracks that
> you could give to the gstreamer developers?
>
> Stefan
> >
> > Stefan
> >
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >> Bryen
> >>
> >
> >
> >
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I can provide plenty of mpeg transport streams that have closed
caption in it. Currently the mpeg demuxers we have do not demux the
closed caption out, but nothing technically is stopping them doing it.

Zaheer