Re: spumux and right-to-left languages

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo-kC51rjc0cqs1dNLGKZg6taU/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.multimedia.dvdauthor.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 27/04/10 07:37, Mehdi wrote:

> i just tried spumux with a persian subtitle, so it seems spumux doesn't
> support persian or any right-to-left languages that have joint letters
> in each word.

Yeah, there is currently no support for context-sensitive glyph 
substitution as is mandatory with Arabic-based scripts.

To fix this would require moving to something like Pango for text 
layout. Not a bad idea...

> also if i use sequence of png subtitle images with spumux, does it burn
> subtitle on the video or just like text subtitle add optional subtitle
> into the dvd?

It inserts what DVD-Video calls a “subpicture” stream into the MPEG 
file. This is a bitmap that can display any image (not necessarily text) 
and can animate, just so long as it doesn’t use more than four colours 
at a time. You can have up to 32 of these, which can be used for 
subtitles in different languages, different screen aspect ratios (16:9 
vs 4:3) etc.

> and yet another question: does dvdauthor(specially spumux) have any
> python module?

There is no DVDAuthor sharable library, but it’s easy enough to run the 
programs via subprocess.Popen, feed them input via pipes etc. What sort 
of things are you trying to do?

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