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Bug 241686 - media-video/mplayer requires USE=srt for ASS support
Summary: media-video/mplayer requires USE=srt for ASS support
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Media-video project
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Reported: 2008-10-13 02:30 UTC by Luke-Jr
Modified: 2008-12-05 02:45 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description Luke-Jr 2008-10-13 02:30:18 UTC
ASS is a competitor of SRT, it really makes no sense to have USE=srt enable support for it...
Comment 1 Wormo (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-10-13 07:09:32 UTC
I think it is upstream mplayer that includes a single flag for building (or not building) subtitle support, but perhaps the useflag could have been better named to be more general. I'll let mplayer ebuild maintainers debate this with you :)
Comment 2 Luke-Jr 2008-10-13 08:04:58 UTC
No, --disable-ass is a pretty specific option...
Comment 3 Ben de Groot (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-10-18 19:21:04 UTC
I am all for renaming the srt useflag to ass, that will make much more sense to people looking at upstream documentation or support. But it's up to Steve.
Comment 4 Steve Dibb (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-12-02 03:42:54 UTC
(In reply to comment #3)
> I am all for renaming the srt useflag to ass, that will make much more sense to
> people looking at upstream documentation or support. But it's up to Steve.
> 

Agreed.  Fixed in mplayer-1.0_rc2_p28058
Comment 5 Serkan Kaba (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-12-02 09:55:11 UTC
Should I open a seperate bug for tracking brakages due to this, or reopen this as a tracker?
Comment 6 stupendoussteve 2008-12-05 02:08:42 UTC
So this USE flag has been noticed and getting commentary in the chat already.

Is there any reason not to use SSA? The description for the use flag is "Internal SRT/SSA/ASS (SubRip / SubStation Alpha) subtitle support" - it seems SSA could describe the SubRip / SubStation Alpha section (but what do I know).

They call it ass, childish users see that as something else.
Comment 7 Ben de Groot (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-12-05 02:45:31 UTC
Who are we to withhold so-called childish users their laughs?

Either way, the upstream option is --{dis,en}able-ass, so for clarity we are following that naming.

Also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SubStation_Alpha#Advanced_SubStation_Alpha