[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH v10 2/5] avformat/rcwtdec: add RCWT Closed Captions demuxer

[Marth64]

Tomas Härdin:
> Can we please get away from this way of reading subtitles? Every other
> type of media (audio, video) are capable of being streamed, but not
> subtitles, precisely because all of them do all parsing in the
> read_header() call. We have a perfectly good generic index and seeking
> functionality. My recent experiment with srt shows it's possible to
> read packets in read_packet() like every other demuxer..

Is there an example I can follow?  Is this something that can be fixed
in an enhancement patch or is it a deal-breaker to merge this?