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subtitle hw decoding?

Posted: 08 Aug 2013 17:44
by ravenshadow
as far i know vlc renders subtitle using cpu(sw).....can it be done by hw(gpu) ? :? mx player has option to switch b/w hw and sw subtitle decoding.... will this feature be added :?:

Re: subtitle hw decoding?

Posted: 08 Aug 2013 20:10
by edwardw
Subtitles are usually text files. They do not need to be 'decoded'.

Re: subtitle hw decoding?

Posted: 09 Aug 2013 06:44
by ravenshadow
Subtitles are usually text files. They do not need to be 'decoded'.
i usually watch animes it has karaoke... i am not talking about .srt files... substation alpha(.ssa)...
it lags in vlc during opening when there is karaoke..... and mxplayer doesnt lag because it uses hw for subtitle decoding....

can vlc have this feature? ...................sry for my english i am not a native speaker

Re: subtitle hw decoding?

Posted: 03 Sep 2013 11:42
by XilasZ
I think it's not hw subtitle decoding, it's the rendering.
Right now vlc blends subtitles in the video before displaying it.
We are aware of that, it should be possible to let the hardware do the blending (like it's done on vlc desktop), but nobody has worked on it for android yet.

Re: subtitle hw decoding?

Posted: 03 Sep 2013 12:34
by edwardw
The problem is that the Android video output does not support supicture rendering, so it must be blended.