Totem

amy

Have now gotten totem-xine up and running okay, but have a couple of questions. I've done a number of google searches hoping to find something on whether or not totem-xine supports closed captioning for the deaf -- something that's quite important to me because I'm stone deaf, myself.

It's a different system entirely than the subtitling one finds and in many ways, I prefer it to subtitling simply because it's generally ten times easier to read it, quickly, than most subtitles. Quite a few of the DVDs out from TV shows come with CCing but no subtitling whatsoever.

So, does totem (either xine - gstream) support CCing?  Are there any plans to do so in the future? It kind of looks to me, right now, that it might not.

Browninggt;gt;gt;

Hi. According to this site, Neither Totem or Mplayer support captions included in the video, only from separate files, so I suggest you give VLC a try; seeing as you're running Dapper and taking into account the author's comments, you have at least two choices: either install VLC through Synaptic (if you don't plan on viewing H.264 videos with it), or download a newer version from VLC's site if you do. Hope this helps.

Thanks!  I'll do that indeed.  

Browninggt;gt;gt;