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

[Tomas Härdin]

fre 2024-03-29 klockan 09:28 -0500 skrev 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?

Not yet, but perhaps once I get my srtdec patchset through there will
be something to follow. Might follow it up with a similar patch for
webvttdec

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

Nah it can be done at a later point as an enhancement if you prefer

/Tomas