[MPlayer-dev-eng] Small changes to subreader.c file

[Joey Parrish]

On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 03:43:42PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 12:22:00PM +0200, Adam Tla??ka wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I am sending a small patch which adds "\r\n" (DOS line endings) to  
> > dump_srt function
> > which is a bug correction because SRT is really a DOS format and will not  
> > be
> > properly read with Unix like "\n" line endings.
> 
> This is not a bug. .srt files are text files and as such should be
> stored in (standard) unix text format. If windows/dos/mac/etc users
> want to use them they can apply the appropriate (broken) textfile
> conversions.

I disagree.  If we are dealing with a text-based format, we should be
able to read CR or LF or CRLF.  If we are writing it, we should write
whatever is either 1) standard or 2) most compatible.  If there is no
SRT standard spec, this means we should output CRLF.

Is there an SRT standard?

--Joey

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