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

[wm4]

On Fri, 28 Jun 2013 22:00:14 +0200
Nicolas George <nicolas.george at normalesup.org> wrote:

> I agree. I already told that I had work-in-progress encoding
> autodetection somewhere. But wm4's proposal is a step in the wrong
> direction for that.

Except auto-detection is not the solution. Not for every application,
and not for this specific problem. It's also fragile and complicated
and will most likely require (optional) external dependencies.