Does anybody use variant, or this is of such no use for anybody that nobody cares to have this fixed ?
I am just really looking for input on wether I am missng something in the variant use, that triggeers what I see as a bug, but might not be, or if it really is a bug. bruno On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I am having a problem using variants. > I have a movie that has 4 variants, 2 files with each different video (pan > and scan or 16:9 format) each with 2 sound tracks. > > I basically hit the bug described by fabio papa in his email to the list in > 2004. See below. I see in the mplayer stdout log that the mplayer options are > concatenated accross variants. So even the simple example given on the wiki > does not work. It is a fluke it works with 2 variants, mplayer apparently > uses one of the two options and happens to choose the right one. But with 4 > variants, does not work. > > So, is this a bug that has been open all this time, or I just do not > understand how .fxd files work ? > > Looking at the fxdhandler code, I would say it is a bug, I do not see any > reason why mplayer-options shold be concatenated across variants. > > Anybody cares to chime in ? I can't be the only one hitting this, specially > if it has been noticed for so long ? > > bruno > > ------------------------------------------------- > From: Fabio Papa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Again on fxd variants > 2004-05-29 03:06 > > Hi all, > > I was parsing the content of freevo_XML_data.dtd, just to be sure I > understood > all correctly. > > At line 141, regarding variants, I read this line: > > mplayer-options CDATA #IMPLIED -- variant-specific opts > > Should I read this as "those options get applied _only_ on this variant"? > This seems most obvious, but it"s surely not what freevo is doing now. What > I"m experiencing is that freevo actually sums all the variants up. Is this > really the expected behaviour? If so, I don"t think it is the correct > approach, as it closes it down to a few cases of use. > > I cannot, for one, specify two different languages as the examples on the > wiki > explains. I did this: > > [snip] > <variants> > <variant name="Soundtrack Italian" mplayer-options="-alang ita"> > <part ref="p1"></part> > </variant> > <variant name="Soundtrack English" mplayer-options="-alang eng"> > <part ref="p1"></part> > </variant> > </variants> > [snip] > > Playing the first variant causes this command to be run: > > mplayer movie.mkv [all sort of mplayer opts] -alang ita > > resulting in a correct play. But selecting the second: > > mplayer movie.mkv [all sort of mplayer opts] -alang ita -alang eng > > which is undoubtly nonsense. And it soesn"t work, as it sounds still > italian. > I just want to know if this is the expected behaviour (I hope not), and if > so, > how can I specify two languages in two variants. > Thanks and sorry for the long mail. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
