DVD subtitle missing outline sporadically
The problem is that on first run, selecting a subtitle from the DVD menu doesn't have an outline. It took me a while to figure out a workaround for this problem, hopefully this'll give you guys a clue. This problem exists on all platforms but the following steps are reproduced on Windows XP. This problem also exists for a large number of DVDs.
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Pop the DVD in
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Go to the DVD menu and select a subtitle
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Messages console show this:
main error: decoder is leaking pictures, resetting the heap
main error: picture to date 0733F180 has invalid status 6
main error: picture to display 0733F180 has invalid status 6
main error: picture 0733F180 refcount is -1
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Play feature by selecting play from the DVD menu
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The subtitles have the outline missing.
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Right click to go to the Subtitle Track menu, noticed there are duplicated subtitle tracks with the name Title # for each language. (this is another bug)
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Select a subtitle in another language, then the subtitle sometimes has an outline, sometimes doesn't. (I'll elaborate on this later)
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Go back to the DVD menu, if clicked play, { subtitle is disabled (expected behavior is to continue to display the last selected subtitle). Selecting a subtitle from the right click context menu displays a subtitle with a black outline. } Else if selected a subtitle from the subtitle DVD menu, a subtitle with a black outline is displayed. }
NOTES for n°7. Having subtitles with outline or not depends on whether the previous DVD playback session has subtitle enabled, if yes, selecting a different subtitle here will have a black outline, no otherwise.
There are so many things wrong with subtitles, I don't even know how to separate the issues into different bugs. These issues has been in existence since I started to use VLC (from 0.8.4 at least). This bug(s) deserves more explanation, let me know if you have more questions.