[MPlayer-dev-eng] Multiple subtitle files?

[Jiří Svoboda]

Hi,

> 
> Hello, 
> Sometimes I'm watching movies (.avi) with subtitles in 
> foreign language (to learn this language), but there are 
> words, that I don't understand, 
> so I found it usefull to switch between subtitle files (eg. 
> Polish and English subtitles).
> 
> So I implemented support for multiple subtitles and switching 
> between these files with 'j' (j is used to switch DVD 
> subtitle language).  
> I changed type of -sub from CONF_TYPE_STRING to 
> CONF_TYPE_STRING_LIST. At the beginning all files specified 
> with -sub _and_, if -noautosub is not given, _all_ default 
> files (movie.sub, movie.txt, etc.) are loaded, and the first 
> is used. If 'j' is pressed, subtites from the second file are 
> used, and the info with the name of second file is displayed. 
> It makes it possible to easily compare two or three subtitle 
> files by fast switching between them.
> 
> I had to put into structure some global vars from 
> subreader.c, changed and cleaned sub_filename() and made 
> small modifications to other functions.
> 
> It works, but some changes to mencoder and GUI (that i'm not 
> using) would also be neccessary. If you think this feature 
> can be useful not only for me, I can make these changes, test 
> it and send a patch. (but I'll be rather busy untill Friday, 
> so i can make it during this
> weekend)  
> 
I think this could (at least for me) useful. Maybe it could be a first
step to show more than one subtitle language at same time (to have
original and translated together)...
Could You post a patch?
			JS