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

[Diego Biurrun]

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 12:35:23PM +0000, ogg.k.ogg.k at googlemail.com wrote:
> > > Does this mean that the main design goal is these subtitles to be
> > > almost unusable without ogg?
> 
> Not at all. It does currently depend on libogg, but only for the bitpacker,
> which I'm considering taking internal to remove that last dependency
> (though xiph's considering splitting the bitpacker from libogg at some
> point).
> It used to be more dependent on ogg, but that's been abstracted away
> since.

But can you please explain why you are reinventing the wheel?  What does
Kate (horrible name, already taken) offer that ASS/SSA or other subtitle
formats do not offer?

Diego