[MPlayer-users] DVDNAV problem: subtitles

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 06:12:30PM -0200, Dâniel Fraga wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 17:08:29 +0000 (UTC)
> Sherington <eduardosherington at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi, sorry to resurrect an old thread.
> > 
> > I just wanted to confirm that this patch fixes my issue also.
> > 
> > I always build mplayer myself from trunk.
> > 
> > I use slave mode in my own application and sub_select 1 to select subtitles at
> > the start of the movie. This worked just fine until a recent (not sure how
> > recent exactly) update broke it. The OSD would show subtitles being set, but
> > they just wouldn't appear until I cycled through them with 'j'.
> > 
> > Even if it's not an 'official' fix and even though it may cause side-effects, I
> > need this to work so thanks for posting it.
> 
> 	Hi, unfortunately this is just a workaround, and as you said,
> with side effects. I myself gave up using this... I'm just watching the
> main movie using dvd:// instead of dvdnav://.

What are those side-effects?

> 	It's amazing how there're many talented programmers here who
> don't care about this bug. So we, users will have to wait forever... :\

I haven't seen enough interest here to make it worth working on
this instead of something else.