[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] SSA/ASS subtitles support (flame warning)

[Rich Felker]

On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 11:30:38PM +0400, Evgeniy Stepanov wrote:
> On Thursday 04 May 2006 20:24, David Lamparter wrote:
> > Congratulations for starting the 3rd independent open source SSA/ASS
> > renderer project. And sorry for being slightly pissed by this.
> >
> > If the effort, instead of being splitted to 3 projects, would have gone
> > into one project, we'd by now have a full-fledged ASS renderer, and not
> > three equally unfinished slowly-if-at-all progressing projects.
> 
> The problem is, I did not know about your project when it all started (the end 
> of february), though I googled a lot. Maybe I should have tried harder.
> 
> As of now, from the compatibility page I see only one point where Asa is 
> superior to my filter, that is "\fe handling", and a lot of points where 
> vf_ass is better (\clip, \fad, \move, \t and more).
> 
> And btw, it is not that slow. The development started only 2 months and a week 
> ago.

Don't be discouraged by David's comments. I haven't seen any other
SSA/ASS implementation with _ANY_ chance of getting included in
MPlayer.. Keep up the good work.

Rich