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

[Ciprian Popovici]

On Sun, 8 Feb 2004 19:15:20 -0500 D Richard Felker III <dalias at aerifal.cx>
wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 11:48:11PM +0200, Ciprian Popovici wrote:
> > 
> > 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.

Thanks, I've got it working now. So this has nothing to do with freetype, it
has to do with the default no-sub policy for multi-stream media.

Speaking of which, I'm sorry but it doesn't make that much sense to me. What's
worse, always loading a subtitle which you can turn off during playback, or
always having to do 'mplayer -v' and look for the stream id by hand?

It would be fine if at least '-sid' would only take text streams into account,
then I could always set '-sid 1' and have a fair failsafe. But apparently it
looks at all the streams, so id 1 can very well be audio or video.

And what happens when you want to play a bunch of OGM's together, do you have
to do 'mplayer -v' for every one of them? That kind of defies the purpose for
the playlist.

I've also tried -slang, but apparently OGM's dont' work that way. Any ideas
for a reasonable failsafe option that will result in the first subtitle being
loaded?

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Ciprian Popovici