[MPlayer-dev-eng] MEncoder: libass support (patch)

[Uoti Urpala]

On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 11:04 +0100, Nicolas George wrote:
> Anyway, I wonder if there are still reasons not to apply these four patches
> in their latest version?

MEncoder is unmaintained and needs a major rewrite that nobody seems to
be interested in doing at the moment. So don't expect much interest in
minor MEncoder-related patches when its major problems would still
remain.

> Patch: mplayer-asscache-20071103.diff
> Message-ID: <20071103124616.GA1470 at phare.normalesup.org>
> URL: 
>  http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-dev-eng/2007-November/054680.html
> Description: Fix a memory leak in the ASS glyph cache.

I think the libass maintainer has little time at the moment. I'll see
how ugly a full fix would be. According to the C standard the padding
bytes may change value when values are stored to the struct (for example
the compiler could fully write a register wider than the value stored,
possibly with junk in the higher bytes) so zeroing the struct before use
does not guarantee the padding bytes will be zeros.