[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: ogm subtitles are a little weird

[gabor]

On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 10:06, Andriy N. Gritsenko wrote:
>     Hi, D Richard Felker III!
> 
> Sometime (on Saturday, March 27 at 17:12) I've received something...
> >On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 01:27:20PM +0200, Andriy N. Gritsenko wrote:
> 
> >> >1. I must now run mplayer _manually_ from command line to see subtitles.
> >> >Nor -sid nor -slang never worked. I can't use -sid X since I never know
> >> >what is first text substream, it may be 2,3 or even 4, so I can't find
> >> >out it before I play and then I have to manually run mplayer. I can't use
> >> >-slang either since ogm format may define language only in comment and
> >> >that is optional. It's too weird for me since I used to play video by
> >> >just pushing 'Enter' from Midnight Commander or by clicking on it from
> >> >gui filebrowser. All old versions of MPlayer played it well and now it
> >> >want me do two manual operations to play each file. Any other format
> >> >except ogm never want me do such weird thing.
> 
> >>     I've found a solution for this myself. I see '-sid 0' has no sense
> >> because text stream never could be first stream in .ogm file. So let's


1. imho it makes things too complicated
2. why don't use -sid -1?
3. even that auto-find-first-subtitle-stream stuff won't help much if
there are more subtitle tracks....
4. btw. with ogm, the same problems apply to audio, because some
"CLEVER" anime encoders (zhentarim, are u listening) set up english as
the default language :))

gabor