[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 2/3] lavf/srtdec: Permit streaming input

[Nicolas George]

Tomas Härdin (12024-03-30):
> lavf's API provides no guarantees regarding presentation order

It used to work, you are about to require new code from applications for
it to work. That is an API break, and pretending otherwise like you do
here is just a cop out.

> "Supposed to" is doing a lot of work here. IIRC AVI is fundamentally
> incapable of providing out-of-order anything, this is true (B-frames
> being notably haram in AVI). It is however capable of providing poorly
> muxed files.

And these files are widely considered broken and annoying.

> So? I'm making a normative argument.

I do not know what you try to mean here and I do not want to know. I
hope you realize you have no authority to decide which ASS file is valid
and which is not.

-- 
  Nicolas George