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

[Simon Chen]

On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 5:12 PM, Karel Choros <karelchoros at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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..
>
I may have the same problem. Actually I find no functions are bound to the
keys "g" and "y" both in default input.conf and my customized file. Still
these keys make subtitles jumped dramatically.


>
>

> 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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