[MPlayer-dev-eng] branching off rc4

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 12:25:43 (EDT), Reimar Döffinger wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 03:38:40PM +0200, Alexander Roalter wrote:
>> I'm not sure it has to do with this special thread, but when I play a
>> dumped DVD (vob), mplayer now automatically shows a subtitle.
>> I have some vague memory that the default demuxer was changed lately (to
>> lavf?) and while previously I had to specify -sid 0 to have subtitles
>> and being able to switch them later with 'j', omitting -sid did disable
>> subtitles, so pressing 'j' during the movie did nothing.
>
> The demuxer was not changed. The behaviour was changed since -nosub is
> now available. If preferred, I have no objections to make this default
> (and -sid -1 then enabling autoselection of first subtitle).

I think -nosub should be enabled by default to meet the principle of
least surprise. All other media players, including commercial dvd
players that i've seen don't display subtitles by default, and I think
this is a good choice.


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