[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 13/17] avformat/assdec: make sure "Comments:" events end up in the header

[wm4]

On Sun, 21 Sep 2014 11:16:49 +0200
Nicolas George <george at nsup.org> wrote:

> Le jour de la Récompense, an CCXXII, wm4 a écrit :
> > A bit "regrettable" IMO (more work for a user if a user really wants to
> > get timed comments), but surely more consistent in general (and I guess
> > Comment events got lost of reinterpreted as Dialogue events before
> > this?).
> 
> For people who want timed comments events, we can add an option that will
> put them in a second stream as packets of their own right. But that work
> only needs to be done if someone actually needs it.
> 
> Regards,
> 

It might also be a possibility to export them as "Dialogue" events,
with some metadata or side data set flagging them as comment.

But yeah, I don't anticipate any real use for this. Basically Matroska
broke this.