[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] lavc: make invalid UTF-8 in subtitle output a non-fatal error

[wm4]

On Fri, 28 Jun 2013 11:56:25 +0200
Nicolas George <nicolas.george at normalesup.org> wrote:

> Le decadi 10 messidor, an CCXXI, wm4 a écrit :
> > libass has no problem with invalid UTF-8, although I don't remember
> > how exactly it handles this situation.
> 
> You can not expect to always be so lucky. And the correct wording
> would not be "has no problem with" but "implements workarounds for".

Yes, for example with ffmpeg, I was not lucky.

> > It's possible that an error concealment method could output valid
> > UTF-8, though. But completely dropping the event is not nice.
> 
> As I said to Reimar, error concealment would probably be a good idea,
> but that was absolutely not what you proposed. Error concealment

I don't care what you think I was proposing. I just don't want the
subtitle decoder to drop output. How is that so hard to understand?