[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] lavc: support subtitles charset conversion.

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 05:59:22PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote:
> Le septidi 17 nivôse, an CCXXI, Michael Niedermayer a écrit :
> > All this pre, post, ... stuff sounds rather messy.
> > Where is the problem of simply having every public function
> > communicate with the "outside" through UTF-8 unicode ?
> 
> That is precisely the purpose, but it is far from being as simple as you
> make it sound. For once, the contents of an AVPacket, is it the inside or
> the outside?

AVPackets contain binary opaque data, more or less
that i guess lifts the (de)muxer layer out from any convertion of
charsets in the "frames", they still may or may not need to do
convertion for metadata depending on the design

[...]

-- 
Michael     GnuPG fingerprint: 9FF2128B147EF6730BADF133611EC787040B0FAB

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.
-- Epicurus
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 198 bytes
Desc: Digital signature
URL: <http://ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/attachments/20130106/ebc8aa94/attachment.asc>