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Title:          xste
Version:        3.6
Entered-date:   2009-11-05
Description:    Subtitle editor with GUI (X windows).
                Can generate ppml, suti, vplayer, .sub and substation-alpha
                output format(and a few more).
                Can read ppml, suti, and ssa format.
                Now also has interface to voice synthesizers.
                Xste only needs a wave or raw audio file as input.
                To unpack:
                tar -zxvf xste-3.6.tgz
                cd xste-3.6
                Then follow the instructions in README.
                 Note: This software makes use of the open source xforms GUI library,
                xforms can be found at:
                http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/xforms/stable.pkg/1.0/xforms-1.0.tar.gz
                Without xforms installed it will not run.
                You will also need libfreetype2 and libmpeg3 installed.
                Documentation is not complete yet, read xste.man.
                Changes from 3.4.9:
                Anim!
                Templates with lots of possibilies for use with the LATEST subtitler-yuv ONLY!
                You can define 'persons' or even moods of 'persons', associate subtitle
                looks, like color, transparency, contrast, movement, acceleration, position,
                exploding text, changing colors... All that subtitler-yuv can do, but now with
                a GUI to make it very easy to program.
                This release is just to make it available, and for me to freeze a snapshot so
                I can continue working on it.
                The following will NOT work yet for 'entities': center, reformat, and vespace.
                Not much testing has been done, this is just a code snapshot.
                And you MUST use subtitler-yuv-0.6.4.7 as that is the first release with re-definable
                text objects, these xste templates make constant use of that..
                Changes from 3.5.3:
                Dynamic movement in preview for video templates.
                At least partially, this is very complicated to realize because the long computing times will slow
                the display down, but the following works (better if you have a > 10GHz processor).
                In export format subtitler-yuv with animation templates enabled, the display will be close to, but
                not exactly what subtitler-yuv will show. And the display will move during play.
                I have not added deltas to deltas (yet?), as that would slow down things even more, and force me
                do take a math tutorial for advanced calculus...
                And I forgot most of that when leaving school in 1967 ;-)
                So, to get usable speed if you are not interested in where all these funny colored text objects
                are, and what they look like in any frame, switch to an other export format while writing subs,
                only use the animation templates output button when really using these.
                Changes from 3.5.4:
                wave_header.h now defines 8 and 16 bits so it should work on AMD64.
                In subfont.c added new freetype defines, read submux.c suggestions out if it does not compile.
                Changes from 3.5.5:
                Activated -Wall in Imakefile
                CCOPTIONS = -O2 -Wall -fno-strict-aliasing
                Clean compile, fixed about a thousand warnings, some included improper arguments to printf.
                This version should thus be more stable.
                All functions prototyped.
                All required header files included.
                Changes from 3.5.7:
                Changed pthread_t *play_thread to pthread_t play_thread;
                Changed to pthread_create(&play_thread, NULL , &video_routine, NULL);
                Memory should be allocated now..
                Dropped -fno-strict-aliasing in Imakefile
                3.5.8:
                Commented out WAS debug print statement in video.c.
                Added printing of hfactor and vfactor in write_ppml_for_subtitler_yuv_list() in ppml_files.c, so margin changes are
                propagated to subtitler-yuv. 
                Clean compile on gcc-4.0.3.
                Compiles also on gcc-3.3. 
                3.5.9:
                Added 2 defines in xste.h so it can both be used with libmpeg3-1.5.3-src.tar.bz2 and libmpeg3-1.7-src.tar.bz2.
                Comment out the version you do not want.
                3.6:
                Added libiconv to Imakefile, else compile error.
                Fixed set_volume() in setup.c so i tworks if an other mixer device then /dev/mixer is used, for example /dev/mixer1.
                Added debug statements to set_volume().
                Updated README and xste.man.
Keywords:       subtitles, video, TV satellite, xforms, Substation Alpha,
                transcode, xste, subtitler, ppml, vplayer, language, CVD,
                SVCD, submux, Chaoji, subux. IAuthor, China Video Disk, DVD, text to speech, dubbing,
                voice over, animation.
Author:         Jan Panteltje
Maintained-by:  Jan Panteltje panteltje@yahoo.com
Primary-site:   ftp sunsite.unc.edu/pub/linux/apps/video/ 
Alternate-site: http://panteltje.com/panteltje/subtitles/ (homepage)
                or follow the link at http://panteltje.com
Platforms:      LINUX, UNIX
Copying-policy: GPL
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