Workaround for subtitles in Leopard Front Row

[elan]

Annoyed that movies with subtitles go black? Apply the following patch
and rebuild. You won't get any subtitles, but more importantly, you'll
actually get video. For everything except foreign films, this helps
greatly :-)

===================================================================
--- MatroskaImportPrivate.cpp (revision 759)
+++ MatroskaImportPrivate.cpp (working copy)
@@ -608,7 +608,7 @@
emptyDataRefExtension[1] =
EndianU32_NtoB(kDataRefExtensionInitializationData);

PtrAndHand(&emptyDataRefExtension[0], mkvTrack.subDataRefHandler,
sizeof(emptyDataRefExtension));
-
+#if 0
mkvTrack.theTrack = CreatePlaintextSubTrack(theMovie, imgDesc,
GetMovieTimeScale(theMovie), mkvTrack.subDataRefHandler,
HandleDataHandlerSubType, (*imgDesc)->cType, NULL, movieBox);
if (mkvTrack.theTrack == NULL)
return GetMoviesError();
@@ -618,8 +618,9 @@
MediaSetGraphicsMode(mh, graphicsModePreBlackAlpha, NULL);

BeginMediaEdits(mkvTrack.theMedia);
mkvTrack.is_vobsub = false;
+#endif
} else {
Codecprintf(NULL, "MKV: Unsupported subtitle type\n");
return noErr;

[David]

OR you can just move the .srt file to some other location...
OR you can just download the last quicktime upgrade and kill all your
subs.
I wish I checked this board before upgrading...

[elan]

David wrote:
> OR you can just move the .srt file to some other location...
> OR you can just download the last quicktime upgrade and kill all your
> subs.

Moving the SRT file isn't an option for MKV files.

[hagar]

Am I correct to state that the latest Perian 1.1 does not fix this
issue in combination with the most recent QT 7.4 ?
I tried it this morning and the screen still goes black. I assume it
is a Apple bug that hopefully gets fixed by Os X 10.5.2.

[DerKlops]

Hello,

On 7 Feb., 13:01, hagar <bart.verhee...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I tried it this morning and the screen still goes black. I assume it
> is a Apple bug that hopefully gets fixed by Os X 10.5.2.

i've actually updated to 10.5.2 and the problem of blackplayback with
front row still does exist.

Does anyone have an idea to fix this?

Greetings
DerKlops