[MPlayer-users] subtitle behavior

[D Richard Felker III]

On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 10:26:51AM -0700, Loren Merritt wrote:
> On 2004-9-28 there was a cleanup of the subtitle loading code. This was 
> mostly for the best, however there is one function that I don't know how 
> to do with the current version:
> I have a movie with internal subtitles, but I want to use an external 
> subfile instead. Previously, I used
>   mplayer foo.mkv -slang null -sub bar.srt
> But now that simply appends bar.srt to the list of available subs, and 
> still uses the first internal sub track, until I switch with 'j'.
> I can select bar.srt using -sid, but the required track number depends on 
> how many subtitle tracks are in the movie file.
> 
> I would be happy to patch this, but I have to decide what exactly the 
> desired behaviour is. My proposal is that '-sub' set the default track 
> to the loaded file, overriding '-sid' and '-slang'.

umm, without -sid or -slang, isn't -sub the default?
if not it's broken, it was supposed to be...

rich