Bruno- I am thinking this just a really rare scenario. IF you can find a fix for it, I think it would be accepted. You may also want to stick in the bug Tracker at SF. So duncan and the guys working 1.X patches are aware of it.
Evan On 10/20/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
