[MPlayer-users] Audio/Subtitle Stream Selection

[D Richard Felker III]

On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 06:02:06PM +0200, Ciprian Popovici wrote:
> Quoting John Philip <phip at spymac.com>:
> > What would you think of this change? Has anyone else wrestled with 
> > having to find the full stream order to use -sid/-aid?
> 
> I've only recently raised the same issue. Basically this comes down to
> two isues:
> 
> 1) -sid and -aid should only care about their respective types of streams.
>    They currently count all the streams, regardless of type.
> 
> 2) There should be some way to specify the default audio/subtitle stream.
>    Currently the default for audio is 1 and for the subtitles is none(!).

When language tags are present, the default audio should be the first
(only?) audio track found that does _not_ have subtitles in the same
language (heuristic for selecting the original-language audio :).

Rich