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Re:FFmpeg Drawtext Filter for Overlays, Scrolling Text, Time... by cm2187 on Friday October 23, 2020 @06:02AM (#24867739)
And when ingesting srt files in ffmpeg. Ffmpeg expects the srt file to be utf8 encoded, but it is sometimes encoded in Windows-1252 which is the original format. So you might need to transcode it first.
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Re:FFmpeg Drawtext Filter for Overlays, Scrolling Text, Time... by henrikschroder on Friday October 23, 2020 @09:08AM (#24869074)
Urghk. I had no idea, but then again I would never use .srt myself, it's a terrible format. I'm always using .ass, because then you can get proper left-aligned subtitles, proper font, and a proper box around them.
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Re:FFmpeg Drawtext Filter for Overlays, Scrolling Text, Time... by _Gyan_ on Friday October 23, 2020 @06:18AM (#24867864)
You can set the charenc option for other character sets.
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