[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] matroska: Identify S_TEXT/UTF-8 tracks as SRT and not TEXT.

Michael Niedermayer michaelni at gmx.at
Tue May 22 00:22:10 CEST 2012


On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 11:37:32PM +0200, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 11:25:26PM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 06:38:31PM +0200, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> > [...]
> > > Well, the disadvantage is that it is really a major API change (though
> > > if the past is any indication everyone will be happy to ignore that fact),
> > 
> > where was such a thing ignored ?
> 
> The short name of a demuxer was changed, and MPlayer for once wasn't the
> only one relying on it.

Its quite easy to support both, which demuxer & when was it ?

anyway my oppinon is definitly to not break API/ABI without major bump
when possible

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