Totem/gstreamer cannot open external subtitles from its GUI

[Roman Polach]

I want to load external subtitles along the video file in totem/gstreamer, but
I did not found a way to do it.

1) Open location: file:///home/meee/path/to/file/video.avi#subtitle:video_cz.sub does not work
    (and if would even work, typing long path manually is not the right way to open video, isn't it?)
2) autodetection for subtitle file video_cz.sub with video file video.avi does not work
3) there is no menu item to load the subtitles.

This really should be fixed ...by extending autodetection rules... or by adding appropriate menu item.

[Roman Polach (rpolach)]

As of 2.19.2 there is a new totem plugin system according to
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/desktop/2.19/2.19.2/NEWS
...so there could be subtitle loading plugin implemented that would not eventualy
confuse users...

[Sebastian Rode (sebastian-ro-deactivatedaccount)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Can you try with latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

[Roman Polach (rpolach)]

Yes, the problem still exists even with latest updates in Gutsy.
Totem GUI has NO ability to load external subtitles file.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for your report, that works fine here with Hardy, can you attach that subtitle to the report? thanks.

[Roman Polach (rpolach)]

I confirm that in Hardy alpha4 Totem can manually load external subtitle file from GUI.
I think this bug can be closed as fixed then.

[Sebastian Rode (sebastian-ro-deactivatedaccount)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. However, I am closing it because the bug has been fixed in the latest development version of Ubuntu - the Hardy Heron. It won't be fixed in previous versions of Ubuntu because the bug doesn't fit requirements for backporting. See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports for more information.