Custom subtitle fonts

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Custom subtitle fonts

tilusnet opened this issue 4 years ago · comments

Hi.

I am impressed by this initiative. I have been looking for a direct Linux to Chromecast transcoding solution for some time, and this project is on the right track!

For a start, which component is responsible for subtitle font choice?
I'd be keen to be able to change the default.

Many thanks.

Derek Anderson · Answer 1 · Sun Jul 12 2020 06:52:10 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Thanks! Subtitle control would be part of the DefaultMediaReceiver web app in Chromecast. There's very little documentation about it last I checked. We could also code a custom media receiver. That would allow font customization.

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Attila Szász · Answer 2 · Mon Jul 20 2020 08:43:37 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Thanks for the leads @keredson!
Just had a brief look now.

Heading off from https://developers.google.com/cast/docs/caf_receiver I discovered the TextTracksManager class which has a setTextTrackStyle() method. Its underlying TextTrackStyle class has a fontFamily property.
Wouldn't this be the right place to dig around for changing the displayed font?

Derek Anderson · Answer 3 · Tue Aug 11 2020 07:11:07 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

i will happily take a PR for a CAF receiver implementation!

Attila Szász · Answer 4 · Tue Aug 11 2020 07:36:05 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

@keredson would you mind pointing me at the code files in gnomecast where such change would be integrated?

Attila Szász · Answer 5 · Tue Aug 11 2020 07:37:50 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Ah forget it, it's probably somewhere in gnomecast.py.

Derek Anderson · Answer 6 · Tue Aug 11 2020 08:16:30 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Well this would be a new file since it'd be writing a custom media receiver with the CAF framework. I don't really know what that entails, prob a HTML/JS/CSS package.

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