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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Jan Newmarch, Linux Sound Programming, 10.1007/978-1-4842-2496-0_26
26. Subtitles and Closed Captions
Jan Newmarch1
(1)Oakleigh, Victoria, Australia
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