[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] rendering of Matroska plaintext subs with libass

[Evgeniy Stepanov]

On Tuesday 22 August 2006 11:49, Guillaume Poirier wrote:
> Evgeniy Stepanov wrote:
> > this patch adds conversion of mkv plaintext subtitles to ass_track. Is it
> > ok to commit (especially concerning demuxer changes) ?
>
> Could you explain a bit more why this change is desirable?
> Is it just "one step forward to ditch old subtitle layer" or is it
> smth else?

Exactly. Currently, libass is used for rendering SSA/ASS subtitles from 
matroska files and all subtitle formats from external files (parsing SSA/ASS 
by itself and everything else with the help of subreader). With this patch, 
it can also be used for rendering plaintext subtitles from matroska 
(S_TEXT/UTF8 streams).