External subtitle support for totem

[Simon Csaba Endre]

It will be really nice if totem would support external subtitles. According to
http://www.hadess.net/totem.php3 totem supports external subtitles on command
line "totem file:///file.avi#subtitle:file.sub" (never worked for me) but does
not have a MENU ITEM and autoloding support for this like Kaffeine (kde fronted
for xine)

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=123060: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=123060

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

I've already talked about subtitle with the totem devel. IIRC he said it doesn't
fit the simple UI, so I doubt the menu item will happen:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=123060

What about the autoloading support ? How does it work in kaffeine ?

BTW "totem file:///file.avi#subtitle:file.sub" should work, what's the
problem/error ?

[Simon Csaba Endre (secsaba-yahoo)]

The autoloading support is working like this: kaffeine is playing the file
movie.avi and loading the subtitle movie.srt, movie.sub, ... from the same
directory. So the filename is the same only the suffix is different (.sub, .srt,
.txt, ...)

Also are two menu items "Open..." and "Open subtitles..." This is not simple
enough? :-) In case of totem will be "Open...", "Open location...", "Open
subtitle...", "Play DVD...", "Play VCD...", "Play Audio CD", ... "Quit"

It's funny that the "Play _Audio_ CD" is included in the _"Movie"_ menu :-) but
the "Open subtitle..." can't be included because it's "not fit the simple UI" :-)

totem file:///file.avi#subtitle:file.srt gave me 'Totem could not play
file:///file.avi#subtitle:file.srt'.

Also as suggested in http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=123060 it will be
 enough if totem will scan the directory where the movie is and collect all
subtitles in "View/Subtitles" menu so the user can select the subtitle.

If upstrem does not want to include this options can I submit a patch for this
problem (probably end of the next week)? It will be included in Ubuntu? What
solution do you prefer?
1. separat "Open subtitle..." in the "Movie" menu
2. or list the subtitles in the already existing "View/Subtitles" menu

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

I've reopened http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=123060 with your
comment. Let's wait for upstream advice for this.

I would not got with the "Open with subtitle" option, but perhaps and autoload
of subtitles with an option in the properties (or a gconf key if the upstreams
think that doesn't fit the UI) could be nice ?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

ok, "patches are welcome" for the autoload stuff according to the upstreams ...
do you think you can do this ?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

this bug is fixed in hoary