[MPlayer-users] bug: subtitles incorrectly displayed with movie coded with matroska codec

[D Richard Felker III]

On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 12:17:59AM +0100, Moritz Bunkus wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> On Thursday 27 January 2005 00:25, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> 
> > ehh? i thought anything but utf8 was illegal in matroska... it sure
> > should be...
> 
> True. The thing was that the Matroska demuxer always initialized iconv
> for UTF-8 conversion even if no subtitle from a Matroska file was
> selected. That messed up _external_ subtitle files. And the original
> poster did mention external files, so I thought this commit might be
> relevant.

oh i see. yes, very true. btw what happens with runtime subtitle
switching now, when some subs are internal and others external?

rich