Re: [FFmpeg-devel] lavu: add text encoding conversion API

2015-09-24 Thread Nicolas George
Le duodi 2 vendémiaire, an CCXXIV, James Darnley a écrit : > At first I was wondering how FFmpeg would have a non-optional part of > the API if you depend on optional things such as iconv. I was half > prepared to rant about NIH and seriously wondering what was going to be > proposed. > > I think

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] lavu: add text encoding conversion API

2015-09-23 Thread James Darnley
On 2015-09-23 19:28, Nicolas George wrote: > Hi. > > This is a proposal for an API in libavutil to perform text encoding > conversions. I had it in mind to clean up the subtitles code initially, and > now it could be useful for James' proposal about metadata. The issues are > relying on the option

[FFmpeg-devel] lavu: add text encoding conversion API

2015-09-23 Thread Nicolas George
Hi. This is a proposal for an API in libavutil to perform text encoding conversions. I had it in mind to clean up the subtitles code initially, and now it could be useful for James' proposal about metadata. The issues are relying on the optional system feature iconv, clumsy and annoying buffer man