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

[Rich Felker]

On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 02:00:31PM +0200, Matthias Wieser wrote:
> 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.

Watching on TV has nothing to do with this. Get an xbox or a PC with
TV-out if you want to watch movies on TV. Both of these are
general-purpose, upgradable devices capable of playing any movie, not
a tiny limited subset.

And FYI so the m$-haters don't whine, m$ _LOSES_ at least $100 for
each xbox sold; the only way they make their losses back is through
game sales. So there's no moral reason not to buy xbox just because
you hate m$; in fact it's good to buy one. ;)

Rich