[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Matroska demuxer adds WebVTT support

[Matthew Heaney]

On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 1:23 AM, wm4 <nfxjfg at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Can I ask why there is subtitle parsing in the Matroska demuxer? I find
>  this a bit odd. Why split them into side-data, instead of just
> leaving the packet as-is?


The cue id and settings are an artifact of WebVTT.  ffmpeg expects to see
just the cue payload as the packet data, so we have to play nice with the
other codecs.