[FFmpeg-devel] ogg kate text subtitles support (patch)

Clément Bœsch u at pkh.me
Mon Oct 24 13:18:23 EEST 2016


On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 12:12:23PM +0200, u-9iep at aetey.se wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 11:49:25AM +0200, Clément Bœsch wrote:
> > > It is bad if you don't strip the markup in the decoder.
> 
> > To expand on this: it is extremely worrisome that ffmpeg could be the
> > source of yet another wave of insane .srt files with kate markup in it
> > because someone decided to run ffmpeg -i in.ogg out.srt in order to
> > extract the subtitles and share them.
> > 
> > You absolutely want to strip all markup in the decoder for minimal
> > support, or FFmpeg will generate broken files, which is not tolerable.
> 
> I see and have to agree.
> 

Thanks.

> (even though I would not expect any remarkable harm to happen in practice)
> 

Today, in practice, we have to support all kind of mix of subtitles markup
in various formats because of this. It would be great not to make things
worst :)

-- 
Clément B.


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