[MPlayer-dev-eng] branching off rc4

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Sun, Aug 01, 2010 at 08:37:24AM -0400, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 01, 2010 at 04:42:28 (EDT), Alexander Roalter wrote:
> 
> > On 07/31/2010 11:51 PM, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> >> On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 12:25:43 (EDT), Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> >> 
> >>> On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 03:38:40PM +0200, Alexander Roalter wrote:
> >>>> I'm not sure it has to do with this special thread, but when I play a
> >>>> dumped DVD (vob), mplayer now automatically shows a subtitle.
> >>>> I have some vague memory that the default demuxer was changed lately (to
> >>>> lavf?) and while previously I had to specify -sid 0 to have subtitles
> >>>> and being able to switch them later with 'j', omitting -sid did disable
> >>>> subtitles, so pressing 'j' during the movie did nothing.
> >>>
> >>> The demuxer was not changed. The behaviour was changed since -nosub is
> >>> now available. If preferred, I have no objections to make this default
> >>> (and -sid -1 then enabling autoselection of first subtitle).
> >> 
> >> I think -nosub should be enabled by default to meet the principle of
> >> least surprise. All other media players, including commercial dvd
> >> players that i've seen don't display subtitles by default, and I think
> >> this is a good choice.
> >> 
> > I would concur only if it would still be possible to switch subtitles on
> > while playing. So the subtitles should be at the 'subtitle disabled'
> > stage (i.e. the one you reach after you toggle through all available
> > subtitles + 1), and can enable them with pressing 'j'.
> 
> I fully agree!
> 
> Anything else that should go into the rc4 branch before the release?

Well, I think the dvdcss code is a completely broken mess currently.
It did not work at all with region-free DVDs (and I currently only
have a region-free one at hand), I fixed that.
However, I still think the no-ioctl fallback code also still is completely
non-working.