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

[D Richard Felker III]

On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 06:18:14AM +0200, Ciprian Popovici wrote:
> 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?

Hmm, good point. Ideally -slang should work, or there should be an
option to always use the first sub stream. But I still maintain that
showing subtitles by default is annoying and incorrect.

Rich