Re: spumux and right-to-left languages

Mehdi <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.multimedia.dvdauthor.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> 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?
>   

thanks for your answers, i got what i want :)
about python module, i look for a way to render my text by python then 
feed spumux to just add them to video. so maybe my rtl subtitle problem 
could solve, i'm not sure?

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