[MPlayer-users] DVD languages show as unknow aid: 128

[Gonzalo Diethelm]

Well, I have checked the same DVD plays ok under WinXP with PowerDVD and
on a set top DVD player, showing the language names without problems. So
it definitely looks like this is a problem with mplayer. The version was
the one from debian testing:

  MPlayer 1.0pre7-3.3.5 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team

Just to let you know. Best regards.

On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 22:03 -0400, Gonzalo Diethelm wrote:
> [Reposting, I never got my own message back from the list.]
> 
> Hello, this is my first post. Thanks for a great piece of software.
> 
> I have been working (and learning) about adding subtitles to a DVD. I
> own a copy of Fellowship of the Ring, Extended Edition, and it doesn't
> have Spanish subtitles. So, I have done the following:
> 
> * Demultiplex the movie into video, audio and subtitles.
> * Use OCR-like software to get an SRT file with the English subtitles.
> * Download, correct and improve an SRT file with the Spanish subtitles.
> * Reauthor a DVD (using IfoEdit on WinXP) with just the movie, English
> sound track, English and Spanish subtitles. I did NOT forget to
> correctly specify the language names for the audio and subtitles.
> 
> Everything works Ok; when I play the movie with PowerDVD on WinXP, the
> menus show "English" as the only choice for audio, and "English" and
> "Spanish" as choices for subtitles.
> 
> I transferred the files to my linux box (the AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS
> directories are located under the .../FOTR1 directory), and launched
> gmplayer like this:
> 
>    gmplayer -v -dvd-device .../FOTR1/ dvd://
> 
> I can watch the movie just fine, and I can switch between English and
> Spanish subtitles. The thing that puzzles me is that gmplayer shows (in
> the menus) the one audio language as "(null)", and the two subtitle
> languages as "(null)". The verbose log shows the following:
> 
> Reading disc structure, please wait...
> There are 1 titles on this DVD.
> There are 28 chapters in this DVD title.
> There are 1 angles in this DVD title.
> DVD successfully opened.
> [open] audio stream: 0 audio format: ac3 (5.1) language: unknown aid:
> 128
> [open] number of audio channels on disk: 1.
> [open] subtitle ( sid ): 0 language: unknown
> [open] subtitle ( sid ): 1 language: unknown
> [open] number of subtitles on disk: 2
> 
> I did take a look at the source code for mplayer, and the only way this
> could happen is in libmpdemux/open.c, around line 300:
> 
>   audio_attr_t * audio = &vts_file->vtsi_mat->vts_audio_attr[i];
>   int language = 0;
>   char tmp[] = "unknown";
> 
>   if ( audio->lang_type == 1 )
>    {
>     language=audio->lang_code;
>     tmp[0]=language>>8;
>     tmp[1]=language&0xff;
>     tmp[2]=0;
>    }
> 
> I have no idea where audio->lang_type comes from, but it surely isn't
> one, and therefore tmp never gets assigned a proper value.
> 
> The case seems to be the same for subtitles, except that the check is
> around line 375 and is against (subtitle->type == 1).
> 
> Anybody has any suggestions? Is this an mplayer issue (likely, since
> PowerDVD works Ok when showing the language names) or is it an IfoEdit
> issue? Is the DVD missing any information that would allow mplayer to
> show the proper language names?
> 
> Thanks and best regards,
> 

-- 
Gonzalo Diethelm
gonzalo.diethelm at aditiva.com