[MPlayer-users] (MKV/DVD) why subtitles are forced?

[arnaud tonda]

2010/10/5 Reimar Döffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de>

> On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 06:17:01PM +0200, arnaud tonda wrote:
> > i have tried to investigate in the code but some parts are not clear for
> me.
> > i have seen that if you deactivate subtitles or choose one of them,  some
> > variables of the spudec handler aren't modified, more precisely
> "pal_heigth"
> > and pal_width are set to 0.
> >
> > if mplayer is launched without any subtitle specific options these values
> > aren't set to 0.
>
> The DVDNAV menu images are stored as a completely ordinary subtitle track.
> So if you set any subtitle options that cause this track not to be player
> (like -nosub or -slang with a language that does not exist for the menu)
> you'll get those white blocks instead.
> There are more bugs in the DVD handling code, but so far I can't be
> bothered
> to try to fix them (it tends to be a huge effort and I personally just
> don't
> really mind).


Thanks for your answer Reimar. i think it will be a huge effort but i'm
ready to help if i can.
is there any bug track concerning DVDs, and DVDNAV? i just searched on the
bugzilla, but i haven't found any concrete things yet.

Best regards
-- 
Arnaud Tonda