[FFmpeg-devel] DVBSUBS and TXTSUBS

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 06:52:54PM +0200, Clément Bœsch wrote:
> On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 04:45:43PM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 07:43:51AM +0100, JULIAN GARDNER wrote:
> > > I was wondering what the current situation is with regards to the decode chain, is there any point in my re-porting my "HARD SUBS" to the current git, we are still using 33000 on channels that need burned in subtitles.
> > > 
> > > I was also looking at getting subtitles working but the source would be teletext, a simple txt decoder, just for the subtitle pages.
> > 
> > i think there where no major changes, but maybe ubitux, iive or some
> > other subtitle experts could comment ?
> > 
> 
> This comment from Nicolas in the Trac summarizes pretty well the
> situation: https://ffmpeg.org/trac/ffmpeg/ticket/1305#comment:2
> 
> Now that things seem to calm down with the audio in lavfi, we might want
> to consider working again on subtitles to do the burning in lavfi (and
> various other changes).
>

> But before I start working on "architecture" stuff like this, I'd like to
> check if Libav won't plan to rewrite everything differently in a few
> months, like they did for the audio processing, audio filtering and now
> writers in ffprobe.

i can tell you already now libav will probably

but why is this a problem ?

Code and design is written in ffmpeg to the best of our abilities.
We are human and not everything will be perfect. "Libav" will take
our code a few month later and change it randomly (while loosing some
names from copyright statements).
Some of these changes will be improvments, some
will be just equivalent changes and some will be worse.
We will merge the ones that are better and the ones that are equivalent
to keep differences small.
This certainly isnt perfect and manpower could be used more efficiently
but libav is working for ffmpeg and they have no choice at all.
Whenever they do something better than we i switch to their code.
Whenever they are worse i dont
So, its not that bad IMO

OTOH if we stop working on some part and just leave it to libav, do
you really think quality will be at the same level ?

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