Checkbox Option for Auto Subtitles when going to Mute

[Konrad Lefkon]

Hi Everyone

 

How about a Checkbox Option for Auto Subtitles when going to Mute? I like the idea a lot but what do you think?

 

Thanks

 

Konrad 

[Griga]

You have already suggested it 12 years ago.

 

A nice idea. However, putting it into practice is difficult. For example, there are channels that provide a subtitle selection like this (from the DVBViewer OSD):

 

 

Which one should be auto-selected? There are subtitles for different purpose, different languages, from different sources (DVB graphical subtitles or teletext-based subtitles)... and several of them remain empty most of the time and are only broadcasted temporarily. DVBViewer can't decide it, so in the end the user has to decide, and then it's no auto-selection anymore...

 

[Konrad Lefkon]

Hi

 

Okay, I'll stop going on about it.

 

Thanks for weighing it up though Griga. I see now it's not as easy as I thought to instigate it. Much appreciated.

 

KL

[Griga]

8 hours ago, Konrad Lefkon said:

I see now it's not as easy as I thought

 

Unfortunately not, but it would be a nice-to-have, particularly because DVBViewer now supports running two or more instances. By this, several TV windows can be open at the same time (provided enough tuners are available), but all of them except one must be muted to avoid acoustical chaos. There is a mechanism that takes care of it, and It could be quite useful if the muted windows would automatically display subtitles, making it easier to monitor what's going on there.

 

A kind of pre-selection by the user could be a solution. DVBViewer remembers the last selected subtitles for a channel in its TV database and reactivates them when you switch back to this channel, even after a DVBViewer restart. Letting this happen conditionally (if muted then..) is a possible approach... with one downside: The PiP window, which can be part of multi-TV sessions, is not able to display subtitles because it has no OSD, and it would require some efforts to add it.

 

Quite a lot to think of... anyway, I will keep it in mind. Maybe it can be picked up later...

 

[Konrad Lefkon]

Thanks again Griga for weighing up my suggestion. I am grateful.