On 8/13/05, unmei <unmei@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This picture data has to be base64 encoded as well, therefore there is > no gain on the file size. But it is a way where the situation is handled > much more according the the semantics. Prerendered subtitle pictures are > used only within "their" subtitle, only during that subtitle's on-screen > time. There is no reason to keep them globally accessible and accessible > over the entire script time. Without commenting on all of the email, I just wanted to point out that it might be much more efficient to zlib compress the base64 encoded data inside of Matroska in the same method used for VobSub subtitles, ie independent of the USF spec itself. Atamido http://usf.corecodec.org