[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] matroska subtitle tracks support

[Ian Caulfield]

On 10/07/07, Aurelien Jacobs <aurel at gnuage.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 08:26:42 +0200
> Reimar D?ffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger at stud.uni-karlsruhe.de> wrote:
>
> > Isn't there also the issue that Matroska can contain ASS and other
> > subtitles?
>
> Indeed, I think some CODEC_ID_ASS_SUBTITLE will need to be added at
> some point. But unfortunatly, Matrsoka don't store ASS subtitles
> as is. They are stored butchered, in a way that makes them useless
> for an ASS parser. I guess they do this to save a few bytes.
> It should be possible to reconstruct them, but at first I will use
> them simplest solution which is to only extract the raw UTF8 text
> out of the ASS data.

Wouldn't this destroy any formatting?

Ian