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

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 09:00:31PM +0100, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> 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".

And I forgot: Official support for ASS in Ogg (and samples or even an
implementation in MPlayer) would be quite welcome in my opinion.
Hopefully it would need even less code than the code to support it
inside mkv ;-)

Greetings,
Reimar Döffinger