[Mplayer-advusers] subtitle sorting should be optional

[Ivan Kalvatchev]

--- Arpi <arpi at thot.banki.hu> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> There was a patch (afair i commited :)) to sort subtitles by time after
> parsing the sub file. It seems to be a good idea, but yesterday i meet
> a sub file which was ripped from a long dvd, and the time was reset
> in the middle. it would work (mayeb by manual adjusting at the reset time)
> but the sub sorting code mixed teh subs from the 1st and 2nd part, so
> it was quite unreadable. i solved it by cutting the sub file, and restarting
> the playback at the middle giving -sub 2ndpart.sub
> 
> Although the better solution would be making sub sorting optional.
Yes, indeed.
I've met quite many subtitles that after somebody's manual editing,
one of the numbers have one digit more or less - and the subtitle appears at
half of the movie.

> And no, i won't make a patch. I'm no longer a developer, as been said
> on the homepage.

Developers have CVS access.
The mortals send patches.

So you are free to send patches. I am sure
that somebody will apply it. If you frequently send patches you may get
CVS access back. I think that there won't be need to send letter to yourself
with username and password ;)


Best Regards
   Ivan Kalvachev
 iive



	
		
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