2011-04-09, 00:47
jmarshall Wrote:If they're text you could do it via subtitles. I suspect they're not text though.
Actually they're simple xml files with box coordinates and text messages (ie timestamp, X coordinate, Y coordinate, message, box color etc). What complicates matters is that any given second (or frame) can contain multiple annotation boxes, with different position which pretty much rules out using the subtitle functionality (plus we're already using this for youtube subtitles in the next beta). The problem with showing this in xbmc is how to handle the interaction part, I can't really see my way out of that.. (is it even possible for a plugin to change default button behavior during playback?). In any case the problems posed by this seems far too many and to complicated for what i'd at best describe as an "edge case".