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Support rotating subtitles along with video

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Description

Expected behavior of the wanted feature

Somewhat related to #6400, but I believe this is a separate concern.

Rotating video currently does not rotate subtitles. This is generally desirable for dialogue text, but for on-screen text rendered diegetically ("Typesetting" or "TS"), it would be more desirable to follow the video. Images below taken from (at time of writing, unreleased) [Kaleido-subs] Blue Archive episode 10.

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With video-rotate=180

Enabling this for all rendering schemes is probably not a good idea. However, libass has been working towards a "split rendering" system, where TS and dialogue could be rendered in different passes. This could be a good fit as a solution of sorts.

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Research direction

Start by reviewing the existing video-rotate handling and libass's proposed split-rendering system. The intended result is for typesetting subtitles to follow video rotation while ordinary dialogue remains unaffected.

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Assessment

Tech stack
c
Domain
audio-video-rtc
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
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