Quoting Hendrik Leppkes (2020-02-27 12:27:09) > On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 12:18 PM Anton Khirnov <an...@khirnov.net> wrote: > > Why does it need to be within AVFrame? I am still unconvinced that is a > > good idea. What do we gain from storing them in the same struct? > > It makes sense for audio and video, because they are similar in many > > important aspects (and even then there are people saying that they > > should be separate). Subtitles are even more different. > > > > You gain a unified API, which we already have now, intead of a > secondary API just for subtitles thats practically the same but > accepts different structs. > This makes everything a lot easier imho. You can decode whatever input > data into an AVFrame, you can filter your AVFrame, still without > needing special data paths, and only at the last step after all of > that do you need to possibly care when it comes to output. If you're > encoding again, you might not even have that.
AFAIU one of the still-open questions for the subtitle redesign is what does it mean to decode or encode a subtitle. And one of the options is putting the AVPacket->"decoded subtitle" (whatever that is) and "decoded subtitle"->AVPacket conversions into a separate library. > > - Hendrik > -- Anton Khirnov > - Hendrik -- elenril _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email ffmpeg-devel-requ...@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe".
