[theora] Cinema automation cues

[ogg.k.ogg.k at googlemail.com]

Yes, it's what I meant. The neatest way would be to make your own codec
though, but that'd be a fair amount more work (and you'd need to make a
plugin for whatever player you'd be using too).

On 7/21/10, Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 7:19 AM, ogg.k.ogg.k at googlemail.com
> <ogg.k.ogg.k at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> Know what I mean? I'm on Linux, Ubuntu to be precise. What players would
>>> you
>>> recommend to handle advanced options like this? I realize we might start
>>> migrating off of the ogg topic right now, so my apologies ahead of time.
>>
>> Gstreamer. It can do everything, even if it can be a right pain to debug.
>>
>> Here, you could use gst-launch to demux embedded text commands to
>> stdout as playback progresses, and have a shell script read those and
>> run whatever program controls the light system.
>>
>> If you go the playlist (or external file) way, then you'd typically
>> run the player and the parsing/timing code separately. You'd have to
>> keep the two in sync though, if you're doing anything else than plain
>> play-forward.
>>
>> For the text file embedded in a skeleton message header, you'd do the
>> second method, but with a preprocessing step to extract that info (eg,
>> using oggz-info, which I think will print out these headers).
>
>
> Why not use Ogg Kate and a srt file to include commands instead of
> subtitles - then after decoding with libkate (or from gstreamer), you
> can simply execute your commands with some other program.
>
> srt could also be used as the external file type, but then you have to
> do the synchronisation between the media file and the srt file
> yourself.
>
> (I think that's what oggk also means, but I wasn't quite sure, so
> thought it worth clarifying).
>
> Cheers,
> Silvia.
>