multimedia linux distros and matroska

[thoralf]

Hi there,

i'm looking for a lightweight multimedia-distro that supports matroska files with multiple audio and subtitle streams and runs on an ibm thinkpad ... any ideas? I've had a look at a recent movix, but the mplayer shipping with it failed on mkvs. suse 8.1 doesn't like my thinkpad, it freezes after running for 10 minutes or so.
any help would be appreciated,
Thoralf.

[mikeX]

Isn't it possible to put your own mplayer build into *movix?
mplayer 1.0pre3 definately supports matroska (although I don't think it supports .idx-sub subtitles in it)

About that Thinkpad issue, have you tried passing a 'noapic' option to the kernel at boot time?

[thoralf]

Originally posted by mikeX
Isn't it possible to put your own mplayer build into *movix?
Yeah, i'll do this as a last resort as soon as mplayer supports vobsub-subs. However, I doubt that this will ever happen: the latest non-beta version is 0.9, and A'rpi is not participating in the project any more :-(

About that Thinkpad issue, have you tried passing a 'noapic' option to the kernel at boot time?
I'll give this a try as well. However, there shouldn't be any problems according to suses support database ...

Thanks a lot,
Thoralf.

[Mosu]

Originally posted by thoralf
Yeah, i'll do this as a last resort as soon as mplayer supports vobsub-subs. However, I doubt that this will ever happen: the latest non-beta version is 0.9, and A'rpi is not participating in the project any more :-(

Uhm... mplayer does support VobSubs in Matroska, I think even 1.0pre3 does. Anyway, 1.0pre4 might come out soon as Alex is back. You can always use a CVS snapshot.

[thoralf]

Originally posted by Mosu
Uhm... mplayer does support VobSubs in Matroska, I think even 1.0pre3 does. Anyway, 1.0pre4 might come out soon as Alex is back. You can always use a CVS snapshot.
Great news. Thank you guys for your efforts - very much appreciated :-)

[mikeX]

Mosu:
I can see that mplayer (cvs) recognises the vobsub streams in a matroska file, but I can't play them back (they play fine in windows with mpc)!
The only case that works is when I have one english subtitle stream muxed into the file, in which case the subtitles are correctly displayed (the colour isn't recognized though) and I can swith between subtitle streams with 'j' (subtitles 1 (en) - subtitles -1 (none)).
Everything else I've tried (multiple subtitle tracks including english, subtitle track with english language ID forced, etc) will not work ('j' will not work either).
??

[echo]

@mikeX:
sorry if I'm stating the obvious but are you using the -sid and -slang switches? vobsubs work great here with mplayer.

regards
echo

[Mosu]

Originally posted by mikeX
Mosu:
I can see that mplayer (cvs) recognises the vobsub streams in a matroska file, but I can't play them back (they play fine in windows with mpc)!
The only case that works is when I have one english subtitle stream muxed into the file, in which case the subtitles are correctly displayed (the colour isn't recognized though) and I can swith between subtitle streams with 'j' (subtitles 1 (en) - subtitles -1 (none)).
Everything else I've tried (multiple subtitle tracks including english, subtitle track with english language ID forced, etc) will not work ('j' will not work either).
??

Well, VobSubs do work for me in mplayer. I never switch them on/off, so I have no idea if 'j' is supposed to work with VobSubs in Matroska, but I doubt it. You know that you HAVE to use either -sid or -slang in order to have mplayer display subs?

[mikeX]

well some times stating the obvious really helps :o (me feels stupid to not have thought it would be like dvd...)
thanks guys :)