[MPlayer-users] Re: disappearing subtitles at dvd chapter intervals

[Brett Kosinski]

> Corrention.  What I've been referring to as 'chapters' do not appear to be
> chapters, but something else entirely.  The /boundary/ that I had been assuming 
> was a chapter boundary was the counter on the mplayer status line; the value
> represented by the 'V'.  At the point when that value resets to "0.0" during 
> playback, that is where a subtitle fails to display. 
> 
>  A:  20.1 V:  20.1 A-V:  0.001 ct: -0.212  2745/2741  44% 17% 21.1% 0 0 0%%
>           ^^^^^^^^
> 
> I am going to do some documentation digging now to see what that 'V' value
> actually is.  since that value (when it resets back to 0.0), and the occurance
> of the missing subtitles, are one-for-one throughout the movie.

I believe that's the video PTS (mplayer's idea of it's current position in
the video stream, in seconds).  Of course, this value is relative to the
current segment, so if the movie is segmented, so it may reset during
playtime because mplayer crossed a segment boundary.

Brett.