Malicious Subtitles Threaten Kodi, VLC and Popcorn Time Users
This is interesting to me for reasons outside of anything to do with exploits or malware.  A while back I had a bit of a brain fart while playing with my Hue bulbs:  would there be a way to use the subtitle track for a video to encode time-controlled data that can be sent to/read by another application that sends these values to a set of Hue bulbs or similar devices for synchronized ambient lighting?<p>I figured that subtitles were an obvious place to start because you can download them in small files, play them back alongside a video, and they are designed to be "timed out" to synchronize with a video already.<p>I looked into it for a bit but never really found a way (within my abilities at least) to do anything like this from within a .srt file or similar.  I'd be interested in hearing if anyone else has more info on how you might do more with that "framework" than displaying text on screen.