[MPlayer-users] Substitle issue with a few DVDs

[Reimar Döffinger]

Hi,
On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 11:39:31AM +0200, Fabio Papa wrote:
> >I think you are mixing a few things. There is the problem that some
> >subtitles can't be selected from DVD (though I don't know why it doesn't
> >even work with -vobsubid for you).
> >And there is a different problem that sometimes only some subtitles are
> >show, which should be fixed in latest CVS.
> >I think the original poster was talking about the later one.
>
> what you say can be true, there could be 2 problems. What am I supposed
> to do then, start a new thread or is it ok to continue here?

Let's keep it in one thread for now. I just thought the post before was
referring to something else as the original poster (to whom my
recommendation is: try latest CVS first).

> >P.S.: I always only buy the really cheap DVDs, but they unfortunately
> >never seem to cause any problems with MPlayer, so I still don't have any
> >samples to really test these things...
> That doesn't seem to be the issue, since mplayer started to not show
> the subtitles on DVDs where a few months back was working ok, so I don't 
> think it depends on the DVD. Besides, it shows the problem even in
> rent dvds, these days. You could try one of those...
> Or, as an alternative, I could work some tests out, if you suggest some...

Well, if it stopped working somewhen, try different CVS versions until
you find the patch that broke it (e.g. via binary search over CVS
snapshots first find the day that broke it).
But before, try changing the #if 0 in spudec.c, line 506 to #if 1. If
that fixes it, then the patch that fixed the StarWars DVDs broke yours.

The only case I saw (during LinuxTag) were DVDs supporting widescreen, here
you had to multply the sid that you would get with -slang by two.
Unfortunately -sid only works up to the last number that MPlayer thinks
is valid. In that case -vobsubid did help (and resulted in the same
situation as doing mplayer -dumpstream first).

Greetings,
Reimar Döffinger