[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] avformat: remove FF_API_ASS_SSA dead code

[Rainer Hochecker]

Clément Bœsch <u <at> pkh.me> writes:
> Hi,
> 
> We just made the ASS packets from the Matroska output them verbatim, and
> not hacked with timestamps included into the timestamps.
> 
> The packets are now typically broadcastable to libass.
> 
> Note that this change has been documented since 2.0; doc/APIchanges states:
> 
>     2013-04-18 - 7c1a002 - lavf 55.3.100
>       The matroska demuxer can now output proper verbatim ASS packets. It will
>       become the default starting lavf 56.0.100.
> 
> It was also mentioned in the RELEASE_NOTES of 2.4 after the bump:
> http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=blob;f=RELEASE_NOTES;hb=HEAD#l40
> 
> I'm sorry about the compatibility break but we had to move on, and I
believe it
> was done in a proper way (slow and documented, while providing benefits
for the
> end user at the same time)
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> PS: this commit didn't disable the code, it was disabled since last bump,
which
> means in 2.4
> 

Hi,

Thank you very much for this explanation and sorry for not having read
release notes properly. subs are not my territory but the maintainer is busy
with real life so I will try to adapt to those changes.

Cheers,
Rainer