[MPlayer-dev-eng] display of subtitles

[D Richard Felker III]

On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 10:48:45PM +0100, Moritz Bunkus wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> Thanks for the explanation, and it's what I expected.
> 
> > back to your question.
> > is tehre any ogm files where the current way fails?
> 
> Not really. Piotr Krukowiecki asked me if I could fix some other files
> that do not include an empty subtitle in the OGM stream whenever the
> current one should disappear. OGM allows for that as it also stores the
> current subtitle's duration. But without a queueing mechanism I can't
> fix this 'the right way', e.g. by inserting those "remove current
> subtitles" packets depending on the duration.
> 
> On the other hand I could simply use a more or less dirty hack... I'll
> probably do that as it won't be much work. If there will be such a big
> change after 0.90 then I'll happily convert the Ogg demuxer to it.
> 
> > if teh former, then a queue could help. if they arrive too late, it's a big
> > issue, it may mean that the ogm demuxer should read more than needed.
> 
> No, it's just a matter of whether they are removed at the right time or
> not. And as both the Windows Ogg DS filters and my ogmtools produce
> properly interleaved files there shouldn't be any exmaples out there
> where the Ogg demuxer should read more than it does now.

Well one short-term workaround that should be implemented is clearing
the subtitle after all seeking. Right now if you seek while a subtitle
is displayed it stays there until time for another one -- really
annoying!


Rich