[MPlayer-dev-eng] Proposed support for Kate streams

[Ivan Kalvachev]

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 10:00 PM, Reimar Döffinger
<Reimar.Doeffinger at stud.uni-karlsruhe.de> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 06:44:26PM +0000, ogg.k.ogg.k at googlemail.com wrote:
>  > I've patched MPlayer to support Kate streams in Ogg and Matroska containers.
>  > Kate is a text codec (for subtitles, etc). More information can be found there:
>  > http://wiki.xiph.org/index.php/OggKate
>  >
>  > Note that the support is just as simple text subtitles (eg, none of the motions,
>  > regions, styles are supported (yet)).
>  >
>  > For reference, here's the current patch, but against a svn version a few days
>  > old already.
>  >
>  > Would you be interested in this ?
>
>  Sorry for being offensive, but I would prefer to wait and hope it dies
>  out before it ever gets used much, since it extremely smells like
>  another case of NIH-syndrome caused by too much use of Ogg.
>  Esp. considering this at the wiki:
>  "I found other formats, such as USF (designed for inclusion in Matroska)
>  and various subtitle formats, but none were designed for embedding
>  inside an Ogg container."
>  Which in my ears screams: "Lets reinvent the wheel instead of
>  fixing/improving Ogg container".

Does this mean that the main design goal is these subtitles to be
almost unusable without ogg?