#11500: MediaConverter renders source file unplayable
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Reporter: vidrep | Owner: stippi
Type: bug | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: R1
Component: Applications/MediaPlayer | Version: R1/Development
Resolution: | Keywords:
Blocked By: | Blocking: 11499
Has a Patch: 0 | Platform: All
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Changes (by pulkomandy):
* component: Applications/MediaConverter => Applications/MediaPlayer
Comment:
Ok, after looking at the code in MediaPlayer for subtitles, I found what
is happening.
When you load a file in MediaPlayer, the playlist management will look for
other files in the directory, with the same name and different extensions.
It will load them and offer them as:
- Subtitles
- Alternative audio and video tracks
The use case for this is, for example, I have a movie with English sound,
and an MP3 file with the French soundtrack. Both are loaded and I can
switch from MediaPlayer "audio" menu.
If you use MediaConverter and put the output files in the same directory
as the source, then MediaPlayer will load both. And if one of them fails
or has no audio track, it will just use the other.
The good news is that your source files are not unplayable, they are just
disturbed by the presence of converted/corrupt files in the same
directory. And the solution is simply to move these files elsewhere.
So it turns out MediaConverter isn't at fault here, however probably
MediaPlayer should be made more resilient to errors in this case, and
maybe the UI tweaked to better show that this is happening.
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Ticket URL: <https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/11500#comment:19>
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