Konrad Materka, GSOC proposal

[Matthias Kretz]

On Friday 28 March 2008, Ian Monroe wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 12:11 PM, Matthias Kretz <kretz at kde.org> wrote:
> > I didn't say whether the subtitle gets parsed in libphonon or in the
> > backend. And I'm not sure at this point where it really should go. But
> > ideally Phonon should be able to handle any media format, and that
> > includes ext. subtitle files.
> >
> > For a start I'd put subtitle parsing in the backend. It's easier to move
> > code from the backend to the frontend than the other way around.
>
> Given the Xine has no way to decode just subtitles, I suppose this
> means he'd have to add the functionality to like phonon-xine. Perhaps
> he could do it in a such a way that it'd be easy to add to other
> phonon backends.

Yes, write it like a library but for now just compile it into phonon-xine.

> Perhaps the ability to drag around subtitles could be in the frontend at
> least?

That's what I meant, yes. The backend would just provide the data. The 
presentation of that data would happen in frontend code or application code.

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