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Font styles for EBU-TT-D

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Font styles for EBU-TT-D - MediaLive

This section applies if you are setting up EBU-TT-D captions from source captions that are embedded or Teletext captions. You can optionally specify some of the font style information.

An EBU-TT-D caption encode consists of an XML file that the downstream system reads and processes. This XML file includes a section for font style information. You can specify some of this information.

  1. In the output that has the EBU-TT-D captions, display the section for the captions.

  2. Complete these fields. For details about a field on the MediaLive console, choose the Info link next to the field.

    • Style control

    • Fill line gap

    • Font family

This setup results in one of the following options:

The XML file for the captions includes the following style information:

Style information Value in XML file for Include option Value in XML file for Exclude option
Font style information (position, alignment, italics, and so on) Set to match the source captions. Left blank.
Font color and background color Set to match the source captions. Set to white font and black background.
Font size Set to 100%. Set to 100%.
Font family Set to the value that you specified in Font family. Set to monospaced.
Line gap Set up to match the value that you specified in Fill line gap. Set up to leave the gap unfilled.
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