[MPlayer-dev-eng] separate infrastructure patch?

[Nico Sabbi]

On Friday 30 May 2008 08:01:28 Jan Knutar wrote:
> On Friday 30 May 2008 05:38, Bryan Henderson wrote:
> > I need some advice on submitting a large enhancement.  Should
> > infrastructure changes that (supposedly) have no functional
> > effect by themselves be submitted separately?
>
> yes
>
> > I am working on television closed captions.  Interpreting them
> > from the MPEG files produced by IVTV and displaying them via OSD.
>
> I guess closed captioning is somewhat remotely similar to teletext,
> for which there's support in MPlayer already..

even closed captioning is supported, even though it's very little
used and the code is even more messy than the already disgusting 
subtitles code.
Bryan could exploit this opportunity to disentangle the mess :)