rulesPlayer 0.84

[bobef]

Max Bolingbroke wrote:
> clayasaurus wrote:
>> bobef wrote:
>>> http://www.dsource.org/projects/rulesplayer
>>>
>>> some nice new stuff and some bug fixes
>>> only one major problem is left - playing internet files
>>> i have the feeling i've broken something though...
>>
>> You should definitely advertise this more, as I think it is possibly 
>> the best media player option for windows. :) Make sure to post the 
>> digg links here too.
>>
>> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/howto-promote.html
> 
> I agree, this is a very nice frontend! I had been looking for an elegant 
> alternative to VLC (I can't stand its interface, and as you say, the 
> subtitles are horrendous): this looks to fit the bill perfectly! Thanks 
> a lot!
> 
> However, I'm sorry to report I have the same problem as Bill Baxter with 
> the brightness. Also, an irritation is that subs are about twice as fast 
> as they are in VLC, so they are over before the character stops speaking 
> (though they start at the right time): I assume I can tweak this via a 
> mplayer option, but I can't see one in the man page.. do you have any 
> thoughts?

About the brightness I always reply the same but nobody tells me if it 
helps so I will have to repeat it again :)
"Yeah many people are complaining about this. I still believe it has to 
do with the overlay color corrections of your video, but who knows. If 
someone get to the bottom of this please let me know, cause there is no 
such thing for me so I have no idea how to fix it... "

> 
> I'm also having a problem where some subtitles that are shown in VLC are 
> missed in rulesPlayer: specifically chapter titles in a series of 
> videos. I think this occurs because there is also text being shown at 
> the same time like "Episode 35" (appearing above chapter titles on the 
> screen), and subtitles after the first are ignored. However, this is 
> fine for most video, where only one person speaks at a time.
> 

I also experienced problems with some subtitles (not showing colors for 
examples) I think MPlayer don't support some tags in some type of 
subtitles... Maybe this is the source of your problem too. Sorry I can't 
be more helpful... Try the MPlayer docs too. There is info how to pass 
more parameters to mplayer in the faq on 
http://www.dsource.org/projects/rulesplayer .

> Thanks again for this very nice player :-)
> 
> Max