[MPlayer-users] Re: How to encode an ogg with mplayer?

Loren Merritt lorenm at u.washington.edu
Thu Jul 20 20:40:17 CEST 2006


On Thu, 20 Jul 2006, Stephan Seitz wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 01:18:53AM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
>> fine-grained seeking, lack of any decent standard for language tags
>> (so it's hard to have a player auto-select language), poor error
>
> What do you mean with this? Should the id tags contain language tags as in 
> xml, so the player would know that this word is English and this word is 
> Japanese?

A decent standard would be something like ISO 639-2. As opposed to having 
files with language tags of "English", "english", "English (formatted)", 
"eng", "En", "fansub", "director's commentary", "yo, this be english", etc.

--Loren Merritt



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