[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] A new ASS renderer

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 02:29:33PM +0200, wm4 wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Sep 2012 12:08:38 +0200
> Reimar Döffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de> wrote:
> > It kind of would be nice if libass could do that kind of thing.
> 
> That kind of thing should probably be left to a specialized library,
> similar to libswscale etc., except that no such library exists yet.

I disagree. Only libass can e.g. look ahead and pool glyphs by how often
they will be used in the future just as an example.
It also can speed up libass itself by reducing allocations/frees if it
pools the glyphs.