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Re: Arabic TextMedia in Movie? Andre-John Mas Fri Aug 15 08:00:41 2008




On 7-Aug-08, at 10:23 , Joshua Foster wrote:

Hi,
I need to display an Arabic caption over a movie. I've got the basics of creating a text track and adding it to a movie:

<snip>

But thus far I have been unable to show an Arabic string, it comes out as a bunch of question marks. I've tried running the string through CharsetEncoder with different charsets: UTF-16, UTF-16BE, etc., and they just give me different combinations of unprintable- character squares and question marks.

I've read about two other possibilities... storing the Arabic text in a file and reading it into a Track using MediaImporter, and somehow specifying the movie and caption both in an XML file (??) but I've been unable to find examples for either.

Can anybody give me a hint or point me to any code or documentation? Keep in mind that I know nothing about Quicktime and I was only introduced to QTJava two days ago, so talk to me like a five-year- old...

Hi,

I thought I would do a bit of hunting myself and I came across this technical note:

http://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2005/qa1400.html

The technical note is target towards the C API, but hopefully this should give you
the starting point for solving your problem.

André

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