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

[Matthias Wieser]

Am Montag, 10. Oktober 2005 22:23 schrieb Guillaume POIRIER:
>
> My opinion about all this discussion is that ppl lost a great deal of
> time arguing over a very small, yet not so trivial issue.
>
> we all agree that :
>   - hardware players are broken (which is probably why I've never been
>     able to watch SRT subs on my crappy hw player)

*Some* hardware players are broken.

>   - the original "format" of SRT used CR/LF mostly because it was
>     developed on windows platform
>   - MPlayer is feature rich and could afford yet another option to
>     generate CR/LF formatted SRT files.

Why not just send an email to that guy who invented SRT?
He should know how a SRT file should look like. At least this would pay 
tribute to the right person.

> Adam, as Richard said earlier, if you could make a _good_ patch that
> allow to _optionnaly_ generate CR/LF SRT files, it has a great chance
> to get merged.

If someone knows what a SRT file is and knows how to edit it and works on 
a Unix machine he should know how to use dos2unix (or use a proper 
editor), too, shouldn't he?

Regards,
  Matthias