[mythtv] SSA/ASS sub support(with patches)

[Shawn King]

for patch 1
made sure that its only fonts that get loaded(cover images and stuff can 
be attachments too)
for patch 3
Scale added(seems to work) and using outline color again for the outline

the InitialiseSSAStyles code was all wrong its no longer static and 
should reload the styles whenever the subtitle tracks changed i also 
moved the custom default style into the InitialiseSSAStyles function and 
added it to the list if no Default style was found(and should still be 
used if the subtitles use an unknown style) it also uses split instead 
of section now

that should be about it for these patch unless if i find more bugs(i 
hope i got them all this time)

On 11/21/2010 10:02 AM, Shawn King wrote:
> On 11/19/2010 10:56 PM, Mark Kendall wrote:
>> On 19 November 2010 20:18, Shawn King<shawnking at optusnet.com.au>  wrote:
>>> FFMPEG has now gotten ASS/SSA sub decoders is there any plans on adding
>>> support?
>>>
>>> attached is some patches that i have been using for a few days now 
>>> w/out
>>> issues it doesnt support any SSA override codes but most other stuff 
>>> is in
>>> there(myth-03-SubtitleScreenSSASubSupport.patch is very wip atm)
>>>
>>> the ffmpeg-* patches is the backported ASS/SSA subtitle code with 1
>>> bugfix(ASS dialog line wasn't null terminated not sure if FFMPEG 
>>> guys know
>>> about it yet)
>>> myth-01-AVFormatFontSupport.patch adds support for loading embedded 
>>> fonts
>>> into mythtv's fontmanager for use in the subs
>>> myth-02-AVFormatSubtitleHeaderSupport.patch adds support for getting 
>>> the
>>> subtitle headers
>>> and myth-03-SubtitleScreenSSASubSupport.patch adds all the code for
>>> displaying the subs and is quite messy(and prob wrong at parts)
>>>
>>> it isnt good enough to be considered for commiting i know but it is 
>>> a start
>> To be honest - looks like a pretty good start:)
>>
>> Clearly there is a decision to be made about backporting the ffmpeg
>> changes (and I'd suggest it would be preferable to have them broken
>> out into the original ffmpeg versions and separate additional fixes -
>> to help tracking) - but I have no idea when the next ffmpeg merge is
>> planned.
>>
>> The decoder stuff looks straightforward enough - though somebody else
>> will need to comment on the font code.
>>
>> As far as the subtitlescreen patch goes :-
>>
>>   - I'd suggest just rolling SSASubUtils into SubtitleScreen
>>   - look at using the the Qt::Alignment flags directly rather than
>> adding the new alignment enums
>>   - there is some extra code needed to handle the fontstretch property,
>> otherwise the fonts may not look correct with XVideo rendering.
>>
>> regards
>>
>> Mark
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>
> the FFmpeg patches was just for anyone who wanted to use/test this its 
> better to wait for a merge then to backport features the bug fix wasnt 
> a big one all it is is this line in avcodec/ass.c:
>     rects[sub->num_rects]->ass  = av_malloc(len + dlen + 1);
> changed to
>     rects[sub->num_rects]->ass  = av_mallocz(len + dlen + 1);
> so you don't get gibberish on the end of the subtitles
>
> i have moved the mythfontmanager.h include from the 
> libs/libmythtv/avformatdecoder.h header to the sourcefile in the font 
> support patch
>
> the 3rd patch now has the following changes
>   - changed the alignment code to use the Qt::Alignment flags
>   - added the fontstretch code back
>   - Changed the SubtitleScreen::InitialiseSSAStyles function to 
> hopefully parse out some of the [scriptinfo] section and hopefully 
> support the older style version(i have no vids that use the older 
> style but if the spec is correct it should work)
>   - added some comments about the ASS specs to some of the functions 
> to aid in development
>   - removed the * from the front of style names im not sure what it 
> does but this is how libass handles it and it isnt in the specs
>   - changed the outline to use the backcolor instead of the outline 
> color libass does this too and it does seem to improve visibility
>   - changed the SubtitleScreen::DrawSSASubtitles code to use split to 
> seperate the values instead of section i dont know if its faster or 
> not im assuming it is SubtitleScreen::InitialiseSSAStyles might get 
> the same treatment
>   - the margin overrides in the dialogue line should work now too
>   - added the alpha channel to the colorcode function(it should 
> hopefully be optional since the older sub version doesn't have alpha)
>
> i did have the SSASubutils in the subtitlescreen class in a previous 
> patch but i couldnt use the colorcode function in the static 
> SubtitleScreen::InitialiseSSAStyles function like that
> the next thing that really needs to be done is to scale the pixelsize 
> and margins compared to playresY(and maybe playresX i don't know if 
> they can be different from the actual video maybe we can use its 
> original video size instead) because a 50px font might look ok with 
> 1080P video on a 1080P screen but it doesn't look as good when videos 
> been scaled down for a 1024x768 screen
>
> other then that its only SSA override codes in the subtext(for drawing 
> boxes/changing fonts midtext/bold and italics midtext) i think is 
> lacking and thats prob above my ability to do
>
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