[MPlayer-users] Question 1 of 1: SSA/ASS support status

[Kichigai Mentat]

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On Apr 2, 2006, at 15.07, Attila Kinali wrote:

> On Sun, 2 Apr 2006 14:58:28 -0500
> Kichigai Mentat <kichigai at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> I guess not. It looks like SSA/ASS support has kind of stagnated.
>> Pity, I kinda liked SSA/ASS over SRT, or even VobSubs.
>
> Actualy the whole subtitle code is currently unmaintained.

ALL of it? That's rather shocking! Especially when you consider how  
well it works currently (it outputs text at the right time-codes,  
right? And it doesn't crash the player, right? I'd call that "it  
works").

> And it really is in need of a new maintainer. If anyone
> feels like he could handle the task, please tell us in -dev-eng.
>
> Now for the question: there is a patch on -dev-eng that looks
> somewhat promising. It needs some rework but if the author
> follows trough you'll have a usable support somewhen soon.
>
> 			Attila Kinali
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