Accessible menus for audio track and subtitle

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Setting the audio track and the right subtitle language is maybe (with
play/pause) the most used operation when watching a movie (at least for me
;-) ).

Accessible menus for that are very useful (like in SMPlayer), it avoid to
pause the movie while searching the right menu with a right-click or in
"Edit" (even if gnome-mplayer menus are no so complicated).

I think those menus could be two buttons just after the "Fast Forward"
button, in the bottom bar, something like :

[(icon for audio) en] [(icon for subtitle) fr]

When you click on an icon, a menu allow to choice the track/language (with
an "other file" entry for the subtitle).

Or it can be two new menus in the menu bar, but there are not accessible in
fullscreen, and showing the current language is very useful.

(That's my lazy enhancement proposal.)

Original issue reported on code.google.com by flor...@biree.name on 1 May 2010 at 9:28

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There are menus in the menu bar for selecting the subtitle and audio 
language... I
don't think I want buttons in the control bar as that clutters the interface.

You do know that you can set the default subtitle and audio language in the 
preferences?

Original comment by kdeko...@gmail.com on 2 May 2010 at 1:12

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> There are menus in the menu bar for selecting the subtitle and audio 
language...

But they are hard to find (you probably need to pause your movie while settings 
audio
and subtitle settings), and there is no way to change them in fullscreen mode.

> I want buttons in the control bar as that clutters the interface.

I understand that :-) But for people that watch a lot of movie, is a function 
more
used than backward / stop / forward buttons - I think. But it's up to you to 
choice
if you want that or not ;-)

> You do know that you can set the default subtitle and audio language in the
preferences?

Yes I know, but if you want to watch the movie with the original language as 
audio
track, you cannot set a settings for that. And for subtitle, I often need to try
different subtitles files - synchronization problems, etc. So those settings 
are not
very useful, and I think it's difficult to improve them.

Original comment by flor...@biree.name on 2 May 2010 at 5:54

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Just as an FYI

# changes the audio track
j changes the subtitle (although may have issues with external subs)

Original comment by kdeko...@gmail.com on 4 May 2010 at 4:11

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Thanks, that can be useful (but really not user-friendly ;-) )

Original comment by flor...@biree.name on 4 May 2010 at 4:44

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Original comment by kdeko...@gmail.com on 4 Apr 2011 at 2:52

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