Pop-Ups/Info Ticker

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What enhancement or feature would you like?
A Pop-Up/Info Ticker added for Fullscreen video

How would you expect it to work? Can you illustrate it with examples such
as images or scenarios?

Let's say you are watching F-R-I-E-N-D-S, and you get to the episode where Pete 
(Monica's rich boyfriend) becomes a bad UFC fighter. Well that episode starts 
with a surprise visit from Robin WIlliams and Billy Crystal to the coffee 
house. Well at that point in the episode a ticker bar drops down with the 
scrolling text "This conversation between Robin and Billy was completely 
ad-lib. Two true comics at their finest..."

Here is how I would see you making it work:

Go to TVS Config... tab to the library.... find the episode you want to add a 
pop-up to... right click episode and choose "Add Pop-Up"... a new window 
appears where you can place the time and text for the pop-up... save or add 
another pop-up.

Please provide any additional information below.

Mirror issue for MovPic: 
http://code.google.com/p/moving-pictures/issues/detail?id=1029

Original issue reported on code.google.com by datahaza...@gmail.com on 3 Jul 2011 at 9:05

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This feature is coming out built into DVDa/BRs and is becoming quite the rage. 
Each DVD/BR has a file with the text and times, and those could be imported or 
people can create their own. I have seen 1 that had the pop-up info built into 
the video, but not many. All digital copies that you can get have the info file.

Original comment by datahaza...@gmail.com on 4 Jul 2011 at 1:16

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There is no enhancement required for this, just use the subtitle function.

A few select DVDs and Blu-Rays indeed contain a seperate subtitle track for 
this. Most of the time this is part of the subtitles for the director's 
commentary track, but there are some seperate tracks for some movies. If you 
use bitmap-based subtitles you can even create them in baloon form, but 
text-based subtitles are a lot of fun as well. As long as you have the splitter 
installed correctly then MediaPortal has no problem showing subtitles like that 
while your media is playing.

You can also use a program such as Subtitle Workshop to create your own 
text-based subtitles to add information and factoits. Possible even setup a 
forum thread to share them with others.

There is even a cable channel that used to rebroadcast movies like that with 
factoids shown throughout, think it was AMC.

Original comment by RoChess....@gmail.com on 4 Jul 2011 at 1:57

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RoChess,this will work if you are watching with regular subtitles? It will pop 
up at the top?

Original comment by datahaza...@gmail.com on 4 Jul 2011 at 2:39

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Bitmap-based subtitles can be places anywhere on the screen, so if you have 
existing subtitles, you can merge the factoid subtitles into this and position 
them at the top.

You can also merge text-based subtitles together, on seperate lines, or 
inbetween the regular subs (if time permits). The latter can be done with 
Subtitle Workshop, but I have no idea regarding bitmap-based subtitle editors.

Original comment by RoChess....@gmail.com on 4 Jul 2011 at 3:22