Marko Mäkelä wrote:
On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 03:27:35PM +0200, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
Peter Dittmann wrote:
Please let me know what you think about this, and if I have forgotten anything or got something wrong.
Klaus
I would add a seperate layer for subtitle. I'm working with DVD decoders and they provide seperate layers for OSD and subtitle. This would remove the concurrent access to OSD for DVB and DVD subtitle generation.
Is it really necessary to have both subtitles and OSD menus at the same time?
Yes. I have missed the subtitles while using OSD menus.
After all, you can only reasonably use one at a time ;-)
Both layers (OSD and subtitles) are mostly transparent or translucent, and the subtitles typically cover only a small area on the screen. I would say you can reasonably use both. At least I routinely simultaneously access the OSD menus and read subtitles on channels that burn the subtitles on the MPEG video stream.
Marko
Well, ok, of course I wouldn't mind if my "dream device" would allow for several layers of OSD.
Personally I find subtitles rather irritating. The other day I watched "Star Wreck - In the Pirkinning" (see http://www.starwreck.com). This is a pretty funny scifi spoof, with CGI sequences that in part are even better than what's in regular scifi shows. Unfortunately they produced it in Finnish (I believe - I'm afraid I can't tell these nordic languages apart), so I had to watch the subtitled version. However, while the subtitles allow me to understand what the actors say, I miss a lot of what's going on in the video, so I frequently have to rewind.
Klaus