Re: [dvd::rip] Forced Subtitles

[Francesco Romani <fromani@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 23:16:53 -0500
"Allan N. Snider" <allansnider@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>     This has been requested before.  It would be relatively easy to do.  
> The extsub filter actually does parse the forced flag from the subtitle 
> stream, but then just throws it away.  If another field were added to 
> the config.sub structure (in subproc.c), that information could be made 
> available to the filter.  Then add an option to only render the 
> subtitles that have the forced flag set.  I have a patch which does just 
> this (and works), unfortunately, it is intergrated with numerous other 
> changes to extsub I made that people normally don't want, as they 
> introduce quite a few headaches in the encoding process, (such as being 
> forced to encode using rgb instead of yuv).  If you are interested in 
> the source patch, and re-building transcode for yourself, drop me a note 
> and I will send it to you.

It seems Joern was right, I'm interested too on this feature ;)
Feel free to contact me via email or -better-, send a message to
transcode-devel and post your patch (don't forget the `[PATCH]' tag in email
subject, thanks!), I'll like to integrate it in future releases, at least the
part that renders forced subtitles.

Best regards,

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