On 02/04/08 10:15, Tobi wrote:
Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
I believe there is a patch for that, but that's not the way I want to implement it.
Yes we have this patch in the (unofficial!) Debian package to support the ttxtsubs plug-in. The Patch is maintained by Rolf Ahrenberg.
http://www.saunalahti.fi/~rahrenbe/vdr/patches/
I want to convert the incoming teletext subtitles to DVB subtitles, so that on the recording/display side we only need to deal with one type of subtitles.
I think this shouldn't be too hard to do. Would you accept come contributed coded that does this?
All I can say is that I will look at such a patch (as time permits) and either use it directly, in a modified way, or not at all ;-).
Teletext subtitles are just in general kinda ugly, because somtetimes even the announcement of the teletext page for the subtitles isn't correctly implemented on the provide side. This means, you need some way to configure the teletext subtitles page per channel.
This is one point that I really don't like about this. If there is an official way how the teletext subtitle page is announced, the broadcasters should use it - and not force the viewers to use ugly workarounds.
(Besides, I guess some day teletext subtitles will become obsolete, anyway).
I'm not sure about that. At least the ZDF here in Germany uses DVB subtitles now, but I don't think the other broadcasters will follow very fast.
I believe the ARD is also looking into this.
At any rate, using DVB subtitles would be the optimal solution.
Klaus