[FFmpeg-devel] Format of decoded text subtitles

[Hendrik Leppkes]

On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 8:54 PM, Nicolas George <
nicolas.george at normalesup.org> wrote:

>
> 2. Add a rich_text field instead. The text in this rich_text field has only
>    local styling information, such as an italic span. The markup needs to
> be
>    simple and to nest properly, so just ASS is out of the question, but
>    slightly modified ASS is possible.
>
>
If you break compat with ASS, what exactly will render your subs then?
Sounds somewhat backward to break compat with one of the most common
styled-text renderers, unless you want to write one of your own for the
"ffass" format (which still is really backwards).