libkate, a library for encoding and decoding Kate streams Kate bitstream 0.7 This is libkate, the reference implementation of a codec for the Kate bitstream format. Kate is a karaoke and text codec meant for encapsulation in an Ogg container. It can carry Unicode text, images, and animate them. Arbitrary timed metadata can be included as well. Kate is meant to be used for karaoke alongside audio/video streams (typically Vorbis and Theora), movie subtitles, song lyrics, and anything that needs text data at arbitrary time intervals. The latest version of libkate can be found at: http://libkate.googlecode.com/ More information can be found at the xiph wiki: http://wiki.xiph.org/index.php/OggKate A Git repository can be found at: http://git.xiph.org/?p=users/oggk/kate.git;a=summary libtiger, a rendering library for Kate streams using Pango and Cairo, is at: http://libtiger.googlecode.com/ For build instructions, see INSTALL. A sample encoder and decoder are included in this distribution, in the tools directory. To encode a Kate stream from a kate text file: $ kateenc -t kate -o output.kate.ogg input.kate To encode a Kate stream from a SubRip (.srt) format file: $ katedec -t srt -o output.kate.ogg input.srt To decode a Kate stream: $ katedec -o output.kate input.kate.ogg In addition, two more tools are available: katalyzer displays various information about Kate streams. KateDJ is a GUI remixing program for Kate streams in Ogg. It uses wxPython, a set of Python bindings for wxWidgets, which might not be universally available. KateDJ also depends on the oggz tools, available from www.annodex.net. For more info on those tools, see the man pages in the doc/man directory. VLC 1.0 can decode and display basic text and SPU based Kate streams, and can display any Kate stream if compiled with libtiger. I have preliminary support for Kate streams for MPlayer, xine, and GStreamer (and thus all players that rely on them for decoding), which will be contributed to those projects once the Kate bitstream format is stable. The current diffs for those can be found in the diffs directory. See the README in the diffs directory for more information on those patches. NOTE: the diffs tree is not shipped in the tarballs anymore, it is now only available in the git tree. This distribution is Copyright (C) 2008 Vincent Penquerc'h. Use, distribution and reproduction of this library is governed by a BSD style source license included with this source in the file 'COPYING'. Please read these terms before distributing.
