[MPlayer-users] Most annoying long-standing bugs in Mplayer

[Karel Choros]

And I thought I wasn't special! :-) I will post details about my system
later..

Anyway the subtitle step forward-backward problem is when using text
subtitles, I think both time-based and frameno-based..


On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 4:58 PM, Vladimir Mosgalin <mosgalin at vm10124.spb.edu
> wrote:

> Hi Karel Choros!
>
>  On 2011.03.23 at 15:07:39 +0100, Karel Choros wrote next:
>
> > I have been using mplayer since, eh, 2001 ? Not that long ago, there were
> > two annoying bugs introduced:
> >
> > - using pulseaudio, when pausing and then resuming with SPACE key, the
> film
> > doesn't always restart - I have to press arrow left then arrow right to
> > resume playing.
> >
> > - the G  & Y subtitle jump keys have changed their behaviour from
> previous /
> > next subtitle to something like "add 1213 ms to the subdelay and
> substract
> > 1234 from the subdelay"
> >
> > I am using current CVS version (say, yesterday), compiled at Ubuntu 10.10
> > system - but it has been the same for last year or so.
> >
> > Does anybody else have these problems? Why they aren't being fixed?
>
> Oh yay, let's make a thread like this! Who knows, maybe some of these
> bugs are small mistakes and can actually get fixed by someone on a whim?
>
> Regarding your first problem, I never experienced it. And I'm using
> pulse output before it even appeared in official mplayer, hmm (they had
> some trouble due to pulse driver rename back then so it was unofficial
> patch). I can't really suggest anything, I think this problem is
> specific to you.
>
> About next/previous subtitle. These keys work ONLY with external text
> subtitles. They obviously don't work with vobsubs, and if you are
> playing stream with embedded subtitles, only "previous subtitle" works.
> If you press "next sub" key, it will give strange result because mplayer
> doesn't know about next subtile yet, last displayed one is "last in
> stream" for it. There is probably no way to fix it other than extracting
> subtitle before playing.
>
> If you press "next sub" by accident, press some key to reset subtitle
> delay, like
> n sub_delay abs 1
> in input.conf.
>
>
> --
>
> Vladimir
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