[MPlayer-dev-eng] subtitles directories

[Clément Bœsch]

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 07:38:48AM -0500, compn wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 08:12:47 +0100, Clément Bœsch wrote:
> >  4) now the new thing, if "subdirs" option specified:
> >
> >     o Track subs in each directory specified by subdirs
> >
> >     o default option could be "sub,subtitles"
> >
> >     o path could be relative and absolute: "/tmp/subs/,sub,subtitles"
> >       will make the code tracks subtitles in the following directories:
> >
> >         /tmp/subs/
> >         path/to/video/sub/
> >         path/to/video/subtitles/
> >
> >     o Note that this options allows you to get that kind of tree in your
> >       movies:
> >
> >       movies/movie001.avi
> >       movies/movie002.avi
> >       movies/ ...
> >       movies/movie999.avi
> >       movies/sub/movie001.srt
> >       movies/sub/movie002.srt
> >       movies/sub/ ...
> >       movies/sub/movie999.srt
> >
> >       and same goes for every media directories.
> >
> >  5) Finally append subtitles from ~/.mplayer/sub just like it is done
> >     currently.
> 
> an option to specify additional subdir(s) sounds fine. most people just
> symlink movies/sub to ~/.mplayer/sub but i can see that being a problem
> for some users. its probably best not to remove ~/.mplayer/sub for
> backwards compatability. just an additional sub path search.
> 

I didn't planed to drop ~/.mplayer/sub directory; just look at step 5.

> i hope we wont be adding options for everyones' silly movie setups.
> 

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Clément B.
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