[Live-devel] Subtitle

[Morgan Tørvolt]

This is brilliant news! I am using amino STB.

What about trick play? After what I can see, pause, ffwd, rwd and such
does not work well with transport stream. Is this a feature that is
being implemented? I see that pause works on VOB, and also skipping to
a certain time. VLC seems to be having a hard time picking up the
video when pausing and skipping, but I hope that the STB will be
better at that. Anyway, TS is supposed to allow for those things I
guess.
Streaming HD streams works flawlessly to(without trick-play). I am
impressed by you guys!

I am not that good a programmer, so I don't think I'll be able to help
much I'm afraid =(

-Morgan Tørvolt-

On 7/14/05, Ross Finlayson <finlayson at live.com> wrote:
> 
> >  I want to use Live.com to stream media to STBs.
> 
> Most set-top boxes currently handle only MPEG Transport Streams, which have
> all media (video, audio, subtitles) multiplexed together into a single
> stream.  It is then up to the set-top box to display (or not display) a
> particular subtitle track, based on what the user selects (e.g., with a
> remote control).
> 
> Note, by the way, that the "LIVE.COM Streaming Media" code can already
> stream MPEG Transport Streams to Amino set-top boxes
> <http://www.aminocom.com/>.  The "testOnDemandRTSPServer" demo application
> can be used, for example.  It hasn't been tested with other brands of
> set-top box, but perhaps - with a little work - it can be made to work with
> them also.
> 
> If, however, you really want to stream a subtitle track as a separate RTP
> stream, then I suggest doing so using the new RTP payload format for 'timed
> text' that has recently been standardized by the IETF.  (The "LIVE.COM
> Streaming Media" code does not yet support this RTP payload format,
> however, so new code would need to be added to support this.)
> 
> 
>         Ross Finlayson
>         LIVE.COM
>         <http://www.live.com/>
> 
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