[MPlayer-dev-eng] [BUG?] Possiblity to display subtitle at once after a seek for soft sub in mkv?

[Aurelien Jacobs]

Ulion wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> An user on irc has been annoyed for 5 years for this problem, soft
> subs (in mkv, ogm) not get displayed immediately after a seek. He said
> other player has no such problem, then this could be a ignored
> feature. I guess those players may already load all subs into memory,
> or seek to an earlier position to catch sub should be displayed at the
> seek target point.

I don't remember if Matroska has a way to know where does the sub that
should be displayed currently, start (something like a sub index).
If it don't, I doubt that parsing the whole file, or even seeking back
to try to find a sub would be something acceptable.

> I don't known whether mplayer has any chance make this?

Even if there is a proper way to do it, I'm not interested to do it
for MPlayer demuxer. Doing it for lavf demuxer would be more useful
in the long-run.

Aurel