Re: [MPlayer-users] [feature request] subtitles in separate window or console

Reimar Döffinger <[email protected]> Sun, 27 Feb 2022 12:42:14 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.video.mplayer.devel,gmane.comp.video.mplayer.user
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> On 27 Feb 2022, at 12:22, Nicolas George <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Alexander Strasser (12022-02-27):
>> Having that said, it would be nice if Nicolas or the OP could comment
>> as I don't have a use case as described at hand currently.
> 
> I was waiting to have some time to test. The idea seems sound, but I
> suspect escaping will be necessary somehow, at least the newlines.

This prints the subtitles formatted for the OSD.
Which I admit might be a bit questionable to fall under "identify".
It should never contain newlines, probably should not even contain other characters needing escaping (as they would be a problem for the OSD as well), but that might not be well tested.