[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] lavc: make invalid UTF-8 in subtitle output a non-fatal error

[wm4]

On Fri, 28 Jun 2013 11:36:56 +0200
Nicolas George <nicolas.george at normalesup.org> wrote:

> It is better because it upholds the guarantee to the application that
> the output is in valid UTF-8.

libass has no problem with invalid UTF-8, although I don't remember how
exactly it handles this situation.

It's possible that an error concealment method could output valid
UTF-8, though. But completely dropping the event is not nice.