On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 17:08:29 +0000 (UTC) Sherington <eduardosherington at hotmail.com> wrote: > Hi, sorry to resurrect an old thread. > > I just wanted to confirm that this patch fixes my issue also. > > I always build mplayer myself from trunk. > > I use slave mode in my own application and sub_select 1 to select subtitles at > the start of the movie. This worked just fine until a recent (not sure how > recent exactly) update broke it. The OSD would show subtitles being set, but > they just wouldn't appear until I cycled through them with 'j'. > > Even if it's not an 'official' fix and even though it may cause side-effects, I > need this to work so thanks for posting it. Hi, unfortunately this is just a workaround, and as you said, with side effects. I myself gave up using this... I'm just watching the main movie using dvd:// instead of dvdnav://. It's amazing how there're many talented programmers here who don't care about this bug. So we, users will have to wait forever... :\ -- Linux 2.6.31: Man-Eating Seals of Antiquity
