[MPlayer-users] About overlapping subtitles

[D Richard Felker III]

On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 04:22:28PM +0100, salvatore.falco at katamail.com wrote:
> > Maybe better solution is, instead of not to compile-in overlapping subs 
> > support (ergo: disable feature at configure time), to add command line 
> > option e.g. "-suboverlap", for those, who likes it?
> 
> I don't think so, if you like overlapping subtitles you like it always, as I do ;)

I disagree totally. Some sub files may be ok and work well with
overlapping on, whereas for some broken ones you may want to turn it
off. Also there's the issue of packaging. User preference options like
this should *never* be compiletime options except during initial
testing phases.

Rich