[MPlayer-users] Switching Audiostreams while watching

[Florian Demmer]

The Wanderer wrote:

> Thomas Zangl - Mobil wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is it possible to switch between multiple audio streams WHILE I watch
>> a movie? Containers like AVI are known to contain more then 1 audio
>> stream.
>
>
> This is not currently possible in MPlayer.
>
>> If not yet possible, might there be a chance to implement this? I´m
>> not very familiar with C (but pascal) so.. I might be a help.
>
>
> I do not think this can be added in the current MPlayer design; it may
> be possible in MPlayer-G2 (currently hung up over some final
> specifications of the new video pipeline), but I can't guarantee even
> that, and regardless it is unlikely to be out for some while.
>
just wanted to mention that i would nearly kill for this feature. should 
definetly be in a next gen product... for example if using mplayer on a 
htpc controlled only by a remote it would be impossible to get the 
second stream without writing something that analyzes every file 
beforehand...

thanks