PBM: mplayer doesn't like commas in subtitle file names

VinzC

HI all.

I was playing around with mplayer and subtitle files. I usually name my video files with the movie title then some attributes between parenthesis, like date and DTS/AC3, e.g.: «Me myself and I (VF, AC3, 2001).avi» My subtitle files are named in a similar way, just that they have the .srt extension.

To my surprise, mplayer doesn't expect subtitle files to contain commas as I see on the standard output an error message like: «failed to open Me myself and I (VF : no such file or directory»! Is there a way to have mplayer load subtitle files with commas in their name anyway? I have tried enclosing the file name in double and single quotes, doesn't seem to work.

Thanks in advance.
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avx · Advocate Joined: 21 Jun 2004 Posts: 2063

Mh, googling suggests, that this should have been fixed years ago, but maybe not upstream.

In the meantime, try

VinzC · Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 7:03 am Post subject:

Thanks avx. I have indeed tried -sub-fuzziness 1 (before I posted actually) and it didn't change anything, subtitles aren't loaded.
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Strange, works for me 8O

VinzC · Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2012 7:27 am Post subject:

It looks like you have an SVN version of mplayer while I'm using Portage's 1.0_rc4_p20110322-r1. Do you think that could be the reason? It also came to my mind to try mplayer2 and see if it solves the issue.

EDIT: Ah, oops, it's always an SVN version I bet, here's mine (from a different machine but I'm using the stable branch on the “problematic” machine too): MPlayer SVN-r33094-4.5.3 (C) 2000-2011 .
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avx · Advocate Joined: 21 Jun 2004 Posts: 2063

I'm on ~amd64, so unstable, yes. It may be, that this branch fixes it, though I can't remember personally having this problem anytime in the past.

For reference, this is my rather simple mplayer-config

VinzC · Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2012 3:39 pm Post subject:

Thanks a lot. Will try that and report.

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VinzC · Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2012 6:53 pm Post subject:

Hi again avx.

I have upgraded mplayer to the same version as yours now. Two facts:

I had spelled the subtitle file incorrectly the last time so I named it after the movie title and
even with that version mplayer still doesn't open the subtitle file when passed in a -sub command-line option

but...

Having the subtitle file correctly spelled now has mplayer automatically pick the right one at startup, just like you, even if I placed all of my subtitles in a subdirectory of my movie folder.

Now, between you and I, it's an utterly stupid idea to use commas as a separator with arguments of that kind... knowing that it just needs to _repeat_ the -sub option! (mplayer -sub file1.srt -sub file2.srt ... KISS!) Wonder if I'm gonna file a bug report for this...

Thanks a lot for your lights BTW.
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