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.
>
>

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