[MPlayer-dev-eng] NUT cleanup
Luca Barbato
lu_zero at gentoo.org
Sun Sep 4 21:15:41 CEST 2005
Rich Felker wrote:
>
> Most definitely not!!
> Subtitle has a 'codec' just like audio and video, and has a specific
> interpretation that should be supported by all players. Metadata is
> just the same useless crap that can be put in info packets, tagged
> key/value pairs, except that it's muxed in the file rather than in a
> global header so it can represent info that changes (such as new song
> title on a radio).
Metadata should have a codec attached too, think about overlay
information for documentaries expressed as vector graphics and text.
You'd put that as subtitle or metadata?
lu
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