[MPlayer-users] subtitle behavior

[Loren Merritt]

On 2004-9-28 there was a cleanup of the subtitle loading code. This was 
mostly for the best, however there is one function that I don't know how 
to do with the current version:
I have a movie with internal subtitles, but I want to use an external 
subfile instead. Previously, I used
   mplayer foo.mkv -slang null -sub bar.srt
But now that simply appends bar.srt to the list of available subs, and 
still uses the first internal sub track, until I switch with 'j'.
I can select bar.srt using -sid, but the required track number depends on 
how many subtitle tracks are in the movie file.

I would be happy to patch this, but I have to decide what exactly the 
desired behaviour is. My proposal is that '-sub' set the default track 
to the loaded file, overriding '-sid' and '-slang'.

--Loren Merritt