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Bug 598156 - Totem don't auto load .txt subtitles
Totem don't auto load .txt subtitles
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: totem
Classification: Core
Component: Movie player
2.28.x
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: General Totem maintainer(s)
General Totem maintainer(s)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-10-12 12:39 UTC by Przemyslaw Kochanski
Modified: 2009-10-12 19:52 UTC
See Also:
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Description Przemyslaw Kochanski 2009-10-12 12:39:05 UTC 
.txt subs are not being loaded automatically loaded even with auto-load subs option enabled. .srt and other subs work fine. Selecting subtitle file from menu works for all subs, including .txt. Checked on multiple movies and subtitles.
Comment 1 Przemyslaw Kochanski 2009-10-12 12:39:53 UTC 
LP bug track: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/totem/+bug/448900
Comment 2 Bastien Nocera 2009-10-12 13:04:10 UTC 
Rename them to .sub, or whatever suffix matches the file type.

Too many false positives trying to load .txt files.
Comment 3 Przemyslaw Kochanski 2009-10-12 17:15:39 UTC 
I know that, and it works then. I can handle it, but for beginners the subtitles just don't works. It may be not important problem for English-speakers, but in my country (Poland) almost every movie has to have subtitles, and 90% of them are .txt!
So that bug makes Totem uncomfortable to use for average user and have feeling that "subtitles just don't work" for newbies. .txt is popular subtitles extension and Totem should support it.
After all, it isn't so hard to implement, is it? Just add .txt to subtitles filtering...
Comment 4 Bastien Nocera 2009-10-12 17:38:31 UTC 
Sigh. You can already add those files as subtitles for the currently loaded movie through the view menu, just like any other subtitles. They just won't be loaded automatically.

We had loads of problems trying to load .txt files as subtitles, and it was causing bug reports. .txt files aren't automatically loaded, but you can load them through the View menu.
Comment 5 Przemyslaw Kochanski 2009-10-12 18:41:13 UTC 
Bugfix: just add:

	"txt",

to 264 line in /src/totem-uri.c

but now https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=597198 occurs.
Comment 6 Bastien Nocera 2009-10-12 19:52:00 UTC 
This one, and a number of others. Which is why it won't be added back.