Re: How to view DVB subtitles.

Mario Rossi wrote:

>> yes: a dvb subtitle decoder and a lot of patience to destroy the currens
>> subtitle
>> mess and rebuild it from scratch(and properly) in a modular fashion.
>> My word, it's the code I hate most in mplayer
>
>
> It seems it is a big task!
>
> I can see some code in demux_ts.c to handle subtitles: is it an
> attempt? does it need some more work? Is it worth trying to understand
> it,

no

> or is it just to be rewritten from scratch?

yes. You need to send all current subtitle code to /dev/toilet and flush 
many times.
We desperately need a serious infrastructure to stream/identify/decode  
subtitles
(like the whole demuxer->video and sh_video chain)