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Linux Sound Programming
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Linux Sound Programming

by Jan Newmarch
January 2017
Intermediate to advanced
608 pages
13h 39m
English
Apress
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©  Jan Newmarch 2017

Jan Newmarch, Linux Sound Programming, 10.1007/978-1-4842-2496-0_26

26. Subtitles and Closed Captions

Jan Newmarch1 

(1)Oakleigh, Victoria, Australia

Many karaoke systems use subtitles1 imposed over a movie of some kind. Programs like kmid and my Java programs play lyrics on some sort of canvas object. This gives a pretty boring background. Video CDs or MPEG-4 files have a nicer background but have the lyrics hard-coded onto the background video, so there is little chance for manipulation of them. CD+G files keep the lyrics separate from the video, but there doesn’t seem to be any way of playing them directly from Linux. They can be converted to MP3+G, and they can be played by VLC, which loads the MP3 file and picks up the corresponding ...

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