A bug made it in dvdrip 0.98.4 which causes subtitles preview to fail, this has been fixed upstream, meanwhile, the following fix can be applied : diff -u -r1.21.2.1 Preview.pm --- lib/Video/DVDRip/GUI/Preview.pm 24 Mar 2007 10:42:11 -0000 1.21.2.1 +++ lib/Video/DVDRip/GUI/Preview.pm 30 Mar 2007 08:29:16 -0000 @@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ sub open { my $self = shift; - return if $self->get_transcode_pipe; + return if $self->transcode_pipe; my $socket_file = "/tmp/tc.$$." . time . ( int( rand(100000) ) ) . ".sock"; Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge dvdrip 2. rip a title from dvd with subtitles 3. go to subtitles, grab, then click on for rendering and click open Actual Results: throws an exception Expected Results: displaying of preview with subtitles working fixed upstream, more details here : http://lists.freshrpms.net/pipermail/freshrpms-list/2007-March/014595.html
Can you check with 0.98.6 to see if its still an issue? I'd rather take this one out of the tree.
Yup, 0.98.6 fixes it, thanks :) Closing this bug report.