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General => Users => Topic started by: phenigma on September 20, 2014, 12:36:15 am
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Hey all!
I wanted to give a heads up about some additions I've made recently. The existing code has long permitted the selection of audio tracks and subtitles for non-disc playback. We have had no place in the user interface to make selections so far. For me this has been frustrating, I really enjoy 'foreign' or 'subtitled' movies. To that end I have added buttons to UI1 that allow the cycling of the audio tracks or subtitle tracks that exist in a playing media file. They are hidden away on the UI1 'Zoom & Aspect' menu.
There is no feedback on the UI for the currently selected tracks, nor for any listing of available tracks. I hope to provide this functionality at some point but there is a lot that goes into making that happen in the old Orbiter UI. So for now, you can change audio tracks and subtitle tracks in playing media files.
I would also like to point out that this functionality works within both Xine_Player AND (on regular MDs) and in OMX_Player (on Raspberry Pi MDs).
Like I said, I hope to extend this to make it more user friendly. For now the capability is there for those that have been requiring or missing it. :)
This is available for 1204 (precise) ubuntu and on raspbian (wheezy). apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade then reload your router to get the functionality.
J.
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Just saw this. Again, very exciting. Thank you.
Cheers,
Matt.
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:) Keep in mind that there is no feedback at the moment. I am learning about orbiter to figure out how to get text displaying. It is going to require some additional glue to send subtitle/audio track changed events and then to listen for them and match them to appropriate orbiters to display. It won't be quick but it'll come.
J.
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Any updates? I have a bunch of movies with several audio tracks and it is rather difficult to watch a movie with the directors narration for the whole audio. I can't seem to figure out how to change audio and subtitle tracks.
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iirc the stuff is online and working. Make sure to fully rebuild your Orbiters.
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The buttons are available on UI1. As posde says you will need to do a "Full Regen" of the orbiters to get the buttons to show. Prior to that you need to apt-get upgrade your core, or sqlcvs update all the db repos.
Let me know if you need any further assistance. The long-term plan is to fill a datagrid to make the selections easier to perform, and inherently have feedback.
J.