libcaca VS libass

If its cacalabs/libcaca you are trying to install, take a look at Sam Hocevar's repo page at https://github.com/cacalabs/libcaca, the readme provides instructions for compiling.

And don’t mind the name, there is also an other one which is a little more updated https://github.com/cacalabs/libcaca

On Libcaca's Github there's actually a poop emoji in the about section. As a European (Danish), I feel like every European knows caca means poop in french. Most of the listed developers are listed as French, too.

libcaca's had some work put into it over the past few years.

libcaca

There is also libcaca

TIL there's a library called 'libass'

Not Rust but libass :D

Dunno ... I'm kinda glad these guys didn't call their SSA/ASS implementation "open"

I see libass gets talked about on Reddit often enough.

libass is similar. For example, in the header:

libass

Using softsub allows you to reduce server usage as you only needs to deploy one video and multiple subtitles, but implementing it is hard: you can use this portable renderer, but just because it compiles to multiple platforms it does mean it run well on those, it might crash in low-end devices (there is even a Crunchyroll episode that loads multiple fonts at the same time, place a lot of texts moving and crash my phone).