2009-06-06, 21:05
Nazgulled Wrote:The thing that confuses me is how everything will be managed in the skin... How does external subtitles take over internal ones? How does language X takes over language Y? Are they all going to be displayed? think this depends on the skin/skinner, but is there anyway to configure this and make it possible to work the way I described above?Exactly what I was saying too. How will all this information be displayed? The way it is currently designed is that there is a "best" of each class of streams (audio/video/sub). The "best" subtitle will be the one that matches the language you set in XBMC settings. The disposition of the subs won't matter, internal and external are the same as far as this is concerned.
Beyond that, I can't imagine the skinners making room to display more than 1 since there's a lot of other details to show too. However, there will be the ability to show that, so someone with a need to display it can edit their own skin to add it.
EDIT: To clarify skins will probably only show you one subtitle of your preferred language, the other subtitle information is in the order they appear in the file. But! If you wanted to be sure a the movies you're viewing have pt subtitles, then in the library you could make a smart playlist that says "Subtitle Language is por". If you want to be sure you have por or eng subs, just make another smart playlist with that criteria. Regardless of if you use filters or not, all the subtitle languages will be available to the skin, but not with any preferential order beyond the first.
Folks may notice I said "smart playlist" there. Oh yes, the next thing I'm working on once hdflagging goes in is smart playlist filters for all the information hdflagging provides. Video Resolution is 1080 and Audio Channels is greater than 5 and Audio Codec is dca!