[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] libass: fix parsing of tracks extracted from containers

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 10:05:25AM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 09:59:18AM +0200, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> > On Thursday, 18 September 2008 at 09:18, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> > > On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 03:02:56AM +0300, Uoti Urpala wrote:
> > > > > Matroska picks 2 of the timestamp fields and removes them from the ass
> > > > > lines, the other timestamps are not changed or removed, this still results
> > > > > in a codec & container timestamp mix, that surely will not become any
> > > > > less problematic if your idioitc suggestion of changing the "packet"
> > > > 
> > > > It's spelled "idiotic", idiot.
> > > 
> > > I long lost motivation to read all this (is this discussion actually
> > > supposed to go anywhere?), but calling someone an idiot is on a wholly
> > > different level than calling something an idiotic
> > > idea/behaviour/whatever (not that that is helpful either).
> > > The next time someone calls a other developer an "idiot" I will ask and
> > > expect the mailing list administrators to throw that person off the
> > > list (assuming I notice it).
> > > The flames are useless enough already, there needs to be drawn a line
> > > somewhere, and for me it is here.
> > 
> > Seconded. Using someone's spelling mistakes as an argument forfeits
> > all pretence of a technical discussion.
> 
> I wonder how you guys actually caught this, I stopped following this
> thread a long time ago.  I suggest everybody to just skip this thread
> entirely, your time is far too precious for these shenanigans.

I am only skimming it, there are some useful facts to keep in mind,
though it feels like facts are getting scarce.

> That said, there are tons of precedents for people calling each other
> idiot or worse on this mailing list...

Hm. Well, I do have a bad memory so anything is possible. But all I
remember is generalized stuff (I am sure gcc, glibc and ALSA developers
as a group have been called such things often). I can also imagine
things like "the idiot who wrote that code", but only when nobody really
knows who wrote it. I do not remember one developer calling another
names, though it may be that it just was more "elaborate", like hidden
in some long sentence I did not really read.
Either way it is a good policy to establish for the future, calling
someone present names should be enough to at least temporarily enable
moderation for that person, without having to discuss this first.
Well, enough of that I seem to remember there are a few patches to take
care of still...

Greetings,
Reimar Döffinger