[MPlayer-users] Seek and subtitle issues with OGM files

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 11:48:11PM +0200, Ciprian Popovici wrote:
> Both issues have to do with OGM files.
> 
> Subtitle issues: for OGM's with included text stream, when I try to play them
> using the internal subtitle and mplayer is compiled with freetype, I get no
> subtitles.

Use -sid to select the sub track you want. Default is no subs, for
obvious reasons.

> Seek issues: all OGM files have places where you cannot seek backwards. It
> stops at a certain place and it won't go back, as if it was the start of the
> file. Some OGM files have multiple places like this, some only have one or
> two. Between those places you can seek backwards fine. Seeking forward works
> all the time.

Yes, this is an annoying bug due to the fact that seeking is done
without an index or binary search... :(

Rich