[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: Small changes to subreader.c file

[Matthias Wieser]

Am Sonntag, 9. Oktober 2005 16:11 schrieb Rich Felker:
> On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 11:59:28AM +0200, Matthias Wieser wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Am Samstag, 8. Oktober 2005 17:36 schrieb Rich Felker:
> > > On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 10:05:06AM +0200, Adam Tlalka wrote:
> > > > no problem IMHO. Exporting of subtitles should produce a format
> > > > which can be read by other
> > > > programs or hardware players too.
> > >
> > > AFAIK windows players have no problem reading our files. It's only
> > > broken hardware player (which are already broken in countless other
> > > ways and not worth supporting) that choke.
> >
> > Why do you think hardware players are not worth supporting?
>
> Because they only support very limited, crappy codecs

Mpeg4?

> and container formats

Avi?

> and encourage idiots to reencode all their files to match 
> these limitations.

Call me an idiot but what's wrong with reencoding a movie before burning 
on DVD? Reencoding does not mean overwriting. And most mpeg4 movies do 
not need to be reencoded anyway.

Please accept that different people have different points of view. Some 
people want to watch movies on their desktop computers, some want to 
watch them on their TV.


> > Many people
> > have one of those hardware players.
>
> Many people do lots of stupid things...

like booting a PC if they want to watch a movie?

Matthias