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

[Rich Felker]

On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 11:59:28AM +0200, Matthias Wieser wrote:
> Hi,
> Am Samstag, 8. Oktober 2005 17:36 schrieb Rich Felker:
> > On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 10:05:06AM +0200, Adam Tlalka wrote:
> > > no problem IMHO. Exporting of subtitles should produce a format which
> > > can be read by other
> > > programs or hardware players too.
> >
> > AFAIK windows players have no problem reading our files. It's only
> > broken hardware player (which are already broken in countless other
> > ways and not worth supporting) that choke.
> 
> Why do you think hardware players are not worth supporting?

Because they only support very limited, crappy codecs and container
formats and encourage idiots to reencode all their files to match
these limitations.

> Many people 
> have one of those hardware players.

Many people do lots of stupid things...

Rich