[MPlayer-dev-eng] Proposed support for Kate streams

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 06:44:26PM +0000, ogg.k.ogg.k at googlemail.com wrote:
> I've patched MPlayer to support Kate streams in Ogg and Matroska containers.
> Kate is a text codec (for subtitles, etc). More information can be found there:
> http://wiki.xiph.org/index.php/OggKate
> 
> Note that the support is just as simple text subtitles (eg, none of the motions,
> regions, styles are supported (yet)).
> 
> For reference, here's the current patch, but against a svn version a few days
> old already.
> 
> Would you be interested in this ?

Sorry for being offensive, but I would prefer to wait and hope it dies
out before it ever gets used much, since it extremely smells like
another case of NIH-syndrome caused by too much use of Ogg.
Esp. considering this at the wiki:
"I found other formats, such as USF (designed for inclusion in Matroska)
and various subtitle formats, but none were designed for embedding
inside an Ogg container."
Which in my ears screams: "Lets reinvent the wheel instead of
fixing/improving Ogg container".

Greetings,
Reimar Döffinger