[MPlayer-dev-eng] Multiple subtitle files?
Jiří Svoboda
Jiri.Svoboda at seznam.cz
Tue Mar 11 17:53:00 CET 2003
Hi,
>
> Hello,
> Sometimes I'm watching movies (.avi) with subtitles in
> foreign language (to learn this language), but there are
> words, that I don't understand,
> so I found it usefull to switch between subtitle files (eg.
> Polish and English subtitles).
>
> So I implemented support for multiple subtitles and switching
> between these files with 'j' (j is used to switch DVD
> subtitle language).
> I changed type of -sub from CONF_TYPE_STRING to
> CONF_TYPE_STRING_LIST. At the beginning all files specified
> with -sub _and_, if -noautosub is not given, _all_ default
> files (movie.sub, movie.txt, etc.) are loaded, and the first
> is used. If 'j' is pressed, subtites from the second file are
> used, and the info with the name of second file is displayed.
> It makes it possible to easily compare two or three subtitle
> files by fast switching between them.
>
> I had to put into structure some global vars from
> subreader.c, changed and cleaned sub_filename() and made
> small modifications to other functions.
>
> It works, but some changes to mencoder and GUI (that i'm not
> using) would also be neccessary. If you think this feature
> can be useful not only for me, I can make these changes, test
> it and send a patch. (but I'll be rather busy untill Friday,
> so i can make it during this
> weekend)
>
I think this could (at least for me) useful. Maybe it could be a first
step to show more than one subtitle language at same time (to have
original and translated together)...
Could You post a patch?
JS
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