Audio track and Subtitle support

[phenigma]

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.

[purps]

Just saw this. Again, very exciting. Thank you.

Cheers,
Matt.

[phenigma]

  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.

[WhateverFits]

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.

[Marie.O]

iirc the stuff is online and working. Make sure to fully rebuild your Orbiters.

[phenigma]

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.