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Re: QuickTime 7 text track bug?

At 18:19 -0700 23/8/05, Darrin Cardani wrote:
David Niemeijer <email@hidden> wrote: 
I am having an issue with text tracks in QT 7.x. In QT 6.5.x a white
text track with {keyedText:On} would result in white text with a
small black outline that would show well on any kind of movie images
(dark or light). With QT 7.x the slight black outline is gone, making
subtitles hard to see if the movie has frames with very light colored
images. Is the way QT 7.x does it a bug or supposed to be a feature?
As outlined text {outline} does not seem to have any effect it is no
longer possible to see movies with subtitles the same way it is done
on DVDs and in the cinema, white subtitles with a slight black edge
that are easy to read on any kind of background.

Does someone know a solution for this? Does it make sense to file a
bug or is the change 100% intentional?

I'm pretty sure the change is 100% intentional. I filed a bug requesting they fix it in 2 previous versions of QuickTime. (I seem to recall it worked properly in the versions before that.) I needed the text to be properly keyed for the app I was working on, and a black outline is not properly keyed, despite the fact that it makes it easier to read in your case. You should probably set the shadow flag to get a similar (though slightly different) effect.

Yes, it makes sense that you want to be able not to have that edge for stuff like film titles. However, they should have kept a way to also generate text with such an edge for subtitles. When I choose {outline} or {shadow} QT 7.x and 6.5.x seem to completely ignore it and display the text the same way as for {plain}. Can any one get to see outline or shadowed text in QT 6.5.x or 7.x ? Or is this the real bug :-)

Thanks,

david.
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