Bug 214822 – media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc2_p26258 does not show subtitles of language Undetermined (und)

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Stuart W. Finlayson 2008-03-26 03:33:26 UTC]

For some reason when playing a video with subtitles of Undetermined (und) language mplayer refuses to show them, even if given the flag '-slang und'.  I have only tried this with Matroska video--I don't have anything that has subtitles (let alone of Undetermined language) other than MKV files.  So, I'm not sure if this is the case with other container types as well.

Here's my emerge --info:
Portage 2.1.4.4 (default-linux/amd64/2007.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.24-gentoo-r3 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.24-gentoo-r3 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6700 @ 2.66GHz
Timestamp of tree: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:47:01 +0000
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p17-r1
dev-lang/python:     2.4.4-r9
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r1
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.26
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.23-r3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config /var/bind"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net/gentoo ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/gentoo http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/gentoo/"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS="--exclude-from=/etc/portage/rsync_excludes"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X a52 aac alsa amd64 amr arts bash-completion berkdb bzip2 cairo cli cracklib crypt cups curl dri dvd dvdread encode fam ffmpeg flac fortran gdbm gif gpm iconv ieee1394 imlib ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kde kdeenablefinal lame logitech-mouse mad matroska midi mmx mmxext mng mp3 mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl openmp pam pcap pcre perl png ppds pppd python qt4 readline reflection rtc ruby sdl session smi smp spell spl sse sse2 ssl ssse3 symlink tcpd tetex threads truetype unicode usb vorbis x264 xorg xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="dummy fbdev nvidia vesa vga"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

And an emerge -pv mplayer:

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild   R   ] media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc2_p26258 [1.0_rc2_p25993] USE="X a52 aac alsa arts dvd encode gif iconv ipv6 jpeg mad mmx mmxext mp3 opengl png rtc sdl sse sse2 ssse3 theora* truetype unicode vorbis x264 xv xvid -3dnow -3dnowext -aalib (-altivec) -amrnb -amrwb -bidi -bindist -bl -cddb -cdio -cdparanoia -color-console% -cpudetection -custom-cflags -debug -dga -directfb -doc -dts -dv -dvb -enca -esd -fbcon -ftp -ggi -gtk -jack -joystick -ladspa -libcaca -lirc -live -lzo -md5sum -mp2 -musepack -nas -nemesi -openal -oss -pnm -pulseaudio -quicktime -radio -rar -real -samba -speex -srt (-svga) -teletext -tga -tivo -v4l -v4l2 (-vidix) (-win32codecs) -xanim -xinerama -xscreensaver -xvmc -zoran (-livecd%)" VIDEO_CARDS="vesa -mga -s3virge -tdfx" 0 kB

Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB

[Comment 1 Steve Dibb (RETIRED) 2008-03-26 14:03:29 UTC]

For the record, run midentify on the file and post output here.  Also go ahead and add +srt to use flags.

[Comment 2 Stuart W. Finlayson 2008-03-26 21:56:50 UTC]

Here's the output of midentify on a file that doesn't work (This same file works fine with media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc2_p25993):

ID_VIDEO_ID=0
ID_AUDIO_ID=0
ID_AID_0_LANG=jpn
ID_SUBTITLE_ID=0
ID_SID_0_LANG=und
ID_FILENAME=Test-Video.mkv
ID_DEMUXER=mkv
ID_VIDEO_FORMAT=avc1
ID_VIDEO_BITRATE=0
ID_VIDEO_WIDTH=704
ID_VIDEO_HEIGHT=400
ID_VIDEO_FPS=23.976
ID_VIDEO_ASPECT=1.7600
ID_AUDIO_FORMAT=MP4A
ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=0
ID_AUDIO_RATE=48000
ID_AUDIO_NCH=2
ID_LENGTH=1480.02
ID_VIDEO_CODEC=ffh264
ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=128000
ID_AUDIO_RATE=48000
ID_AUDIO_NCH=2
ID_AUDIO_CODEC=faad

Adding the srt flag has no effect.

[Comment 3 Stuart W. Finlayson 2008-03-31 02:36:08 UTC]

Just an update, media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc2_p26300-r1 has the same problem.

[Comment 4 Stuart W. Finlayson 2008-04-15 18:39:32 UTC]

Another update, media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc2_p26450 seems to work fine.