[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH v5 00/25] Subtitle Filtering 2022

[Matt Zagrabelny]

On Sat, Jul 2, 2022 at 2:17 PM Nicolas George <george at nsup.org> wrote:

> Soft Works (12022-07-02):
> > The duplication has always existed already between audio and video
> > filters. You could have unified and eliminated that duplication for
> > years, but you didn't.
>
> I have been preparing for it for years. You did not help.
>

Because SW didn't help deduplicate audio and video, he can't help add
subtitle support?

Also, maybe he wasn't hacking on ffmpeg when you started preparing years
ago. Because he might be a recent hacker, his contributions are
disqualified?



> > Even when I would follow that demand, it wouldn't be reasonable,
> > because in that case, the patchset would dramatically widen its
> > scope and start affecting audio and video as well - which is much
> > too huge to get it tackled in a single patchset.
>
> We will not accept a bad patch just because you have bitten more than
> you could chew and reverted to a quick and dirty solution.
>

You are literally asking SW to bite off more.

Which one is it? He bit off more than he can chew, or you need him to bite
more off?

Nicolas' arguments seem to be "The perfect is the enemy of the good."

-m