Port to Linux

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Linux is an operating system with a growing userbase. On the Mobile sector, 
Android takes 75% market share as of recently. xy-vsfilter does not work on it 
yet, but I do think a port would be in interest of everyone.

There is libass, but its development is not very active (only bug fixes), and 
there are still many ASS scripts which cause performance issues or render 
incorrectly. The issues are mainly due to an never ending stream of odd corner 
cases that have plagued libass since forever. It might even not be possible to 
perfectly render ASS scripts without being vsfilter itself.

Having a single codebase to render ASS would be the best after all. All what 
have to be done is replacing some Windows specific, such as removing the use of 
the font render API (that's a big one) and providing an external API that 
doesn't imply DirectShow usage. Other than that, it's probably just boring 
grunt work of pruning unportable idioms.

While I do not think that libass is all that bad, it would be great to have a 
renderer that works well on all platforms, and on which all effort can be 
concentrated to improve the situation for everyone.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by nfxjfg@googlemail.com on 26 May 2013 at 12:39

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Hi,

What's the status of this feature? Has anyone been working on it?

I'd like to give it a try...

Original comment by facugaich@gmail.com on 24 Jun 2014 at 12:13

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Is there ever going to be work in this area?

Original comment by mstavo...@gmail.com on 12 Dec 2014 at 2:12

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We'd certainly accept pull requests, if someone wanted to work on it. Currently 
xy-VSFilter doesn't even have an active developer, so the entire project is on 
life-support.

Original comment by cyber.sp...@gmail.com on 12 Dec 2014 at 4:21