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

[Rich Felker]

On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 02:21:11PM +0200, David Lamparter wrote:
> >On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 11:30:38PM +0400, Evgeniy Stepanov wrote:
> >> And btw, it is not that slow. The development started only 2 months
> >> and a week ago.
> 
> Thing is, aside from the 3 currently active projects, there was quite a
> number that failed before them. Every single of them seemed ambitious,
> had great concepts - and then starved off anyway. So "i'm writing an ASS
> renderer" became a running gag among fansubbers. You'd be the first one
> to succeed.

IMO the problem with the other projects was probably that they were so
"ambitious" as you put it, and worried about making a fancy bloated
library API rather than just making something that works..

Working alongside MPlayer and developing something that can actually
perform well is a much better short-term approach IMO. Then someone
can later abstract it into a general-purpose, slow library if desired.
:)

Rich