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Ghitulescu · 21st February 2017, 10:55

ASS is one of the rarest formats I've seen in the description of mediaplayers, be they in BD/DVDplayers, in TV sets or elsewhere - they are mostly supported in software-based solutions like mediatanks.
On the contrary, other formats, like PGS, have hardware support. Some, like SRT are not even supported in full.
I regard ASS only as an intermediate format (an editing one) before being converted into an universally accepted one, like PGS for BD.
As for animations, yes, the amount of power may not be great and surely depends on how the HW cope with, but one should remember that the DVD format required only a small part of the video packets to be encrypted, for the computing power of the standalones was very low - not 5 years later, the cracking of the CSS and the subsequent decoding was done in splitseconds.... A heavily java-based BD renders even a current BD player frozen-like for good dozens of seconds, let alone one of the first players, that needed probably minutes...
Power is relative, but the Microsoft syndrome has to be avoided at all costs.

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Ghitulescu Registered User Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Germany Posts: 5,769	ASS is one of the rarest formats I've seen in the description of mediaplayers, be they in BD/DVDplayers, in TV sets or elsewhere - they are mostly supported in software-based solutions like mediatanks. On the contrary, other formats, like PGS, have hardware support. Some, like SRT are not even supported in full. I regard ASS only as an intermediate format (an editing one) before being converted into an universally accepted one, like PGS for BD. As for animations, yes, the amount of power may not be great and surely depends on how the HW cope with, but one should remember that the DVD format required only a small part of the video packets to be encrypted, for the computing power of the standalones was very low - not 5 years later, the cracking of the CSS and the subsequent decoding was done in splitseconds.... A heavily java-based BD renders even a current BD player frozen-like for good dozens of seconds, let alone one of the first players, that needed probably minutes... Power is relative, but the Microsoft syndrome has to be avoided at all costs. __________________ Born in the USB (not USA)