GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 347068
request to include filters for the subtitle formats ssa and ass
Last modified: 2006-07-17 09:45:02 UTC
if you make subs for any kind of video, it's really ugly and crappy to use srt or some other formats like that ssa and ass brings to you a universe of possibilities to make a wonderful subtitles, with colors, effects and anything you can imagine it would be a really kick ass feature to show an amazing subtitles encoded by gstreamer
There is already an element to handle ssa/ass subtitle formats : ssaparse that comes with the subparse plugin in gst-plugins-base. And I don't think it was just added to cvs, so it should already be available in the last release. Gil, why do you say it doesn't work ? Have you tried it with totem ? It might just be a wrong integration with totem.
well, to be honest, in the fluendo's party during the GUADEC I ask andy if there was a plugin to handle this subtitle formats and he says me "no, fill a bug, and probably there will be" My neededs are that I hardsub some videos (mostly japanese anime) and I didn't figured out anyone app that permits me to add ssa or ass to the video and then recompress the video with the subs to produce a avi or something like that it's this possible right now?
We currently support SSA/ASS (only the most basic features though), but only if muxed into a stream, like in a matroska container. The mkvmerge utility will do that for you. We don't support .ssa subtitles from stand-alone subtitle files at the moment IIRC, that shouldn't be too hard to fix though (and I can't say I've ever seen stand-alone .ssa files being distributed anywhere).
as I say before, my needs are to mux some video, some audio and some subs (ssa or ass) to make a stand-alone video, like the virtualdubmod (for windows) where you can add everything you want and then encode them all I'm searching for an app to encode videos that let me choose a ass/ssa subtitles to produce a hardened subtitles in the video, not semi-muxed like mkv and other stuff like that I'm not sure if I'm explaining clearly, my english is really bad, sorry
> I'm searching for an app to encode videos that let me choose a ass/ssa > subtitles to produce a hardened subtitles in the video, not semi-muxed like mkv > and other stuff like that You can do that using GStreamer, but it involves re-encoding the video, since you need to decode it, then overlay the subtitle text as bitmap onto the video (using the 'textoverlay' element), and then encode it again. This seems more of a GStreamer usage question to me than a bug report/feature request (please re-open if I misunderstood you).