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

[Diego Biurrun]

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 12:50:05PM +0000, ogg.k.ogg.k at googlemail.com wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> It is a valid criticism that I'm not adding anything (AFAIK) above what
> ASS/SSA can do, so I have not denied Reimar's reply, which is fair
> enough.

If this is true then what you are doing is *harmful* and you should drop
this useless effort.  There is plenty to be done in free software
multimedia.  Please find an area where you can help instead of creating
extra work for everyone.

Diego