[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: [PATCH] SSA/ASS subtitles support

[Rich Felker]

On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 06:48:07PM +0800, ?????? wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wednesday 05 July 2006 15:54, Evgeniy Stepanov wrote:
> > Sure. I've attached a small function for converting subdata to ass_track.
> > This way, every subtitle format supported by subreader can be displayed
> > with libass. Something like this can be done for mp4 timed text, too.
> 
> All right. So all I need is to extract all the subtitles in a file and feed 
> them to a ass_read_subdata? That's great.

Arrg, why "in a file"?? Can't you just pass the fonts directly without
storing them to disk?

If there's any way around it I'm strongly against features that
require temp files.

Rich