Feature Request: MKV as a virtual folder to choose audio and subtitle streams

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What do you think about the possibility of having Matroska files show up as a 
folder with it's stream content 
shown as settable options?

I picture the folder having the thumbnail (grabbed from an attachment in the 
mkv itself) one item in the folder 
named 'Play' or something, and the others a list of the audio and subtitle 
streams available to set which one is 
played much like the video settings configuration.

The configuration gui could set a default language, number of audio channels 
and subtitle stream.

I could watch one movie with its default settings of say english, 5.1 ac3 and 
no subtitles, then select a foreign 
film mkv, choose the foreign language and english subtitles.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by areob...@gmail.com on 19 Jan 2009 at 1:42

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doesnt the ps3 player have built in options (triangle button) that allow you to
switch between subtitles and audio streams? or am i missing something?

Original comment by robert.s...@gmail.com on 19 Jan 2009 at 2:08

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Don't know if new version supports it but you can choose different audio tracks 
when 
streaming m2ts. But don't know if PMS remuxes all included audio tracks in MKV 
to 
m2ts or takes only first one as in older versions:-(
Subtitles not possible to stream in container, it is needed to use transcoding 
for 
subtitles. 

Original comment by ExSportCZ@gmail.com on 19 Jan 2009 at 3:19

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Only one audio stream and optional subtitle stream can be transcoded out to the 
ps3 using mencoder, so the 
native ps3 video options can't be used.

Like the PMS #- Video Settings -# virtual folder, each audio and subtitle 
stream available inside the mkv file 
could be 'selected' and then once 'Play' was selected the streams with a green 
check mark would be the 
transcoded streams passed to mencoder and sent to the ps3.

Original comment by areob...@gmail.com on 19 Jan 2009 at 3:48

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I wasn't talking about transcoding(Mencoder) but remuxing(tsMuxeR).It is not 
good to 
transcode with all audios because of high bitrate. But when remuxing(up to 10x 
lower 
bitrate), you have no possibility to choose audio track when only first track 
is 
muxed. It could be great to mux all audio tracks but for transcoding...no 
change, 
now it is best possible option.

Original comment by ExSportCZ@gmail.com on 19 Jan 2009 at 4:00

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I understand what you're saying about remuxing, but my video is already mpeg2 
and audio ac3. Mencoder would 
just use '-oac copy -ovc copy' and send the video, selected audio and selected 
subtitle stream as it does now, 
and since it's not transcoding the original formats, maintains the bitrate 
below 10Mbps.
I already have the stream copy working. See issue #159 and that option should 
be in the next release.

Original comment by areob...@gmail.com on 19 Jan 2009 at 4:23

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Any benefits using mencoder instead of tsmuxer? Also when you use mencoder, it 
is 
not possible to stream subtitles without reencoding/transcoding video. What is 
exactly the difference between tsMuxeR's muxing and MEncoder's muxing(-copy 
parameter)?

Original comment by ExSportCZ@gmail.com on 19 Jan 2009 at 4:50

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that's forum talking, guys, if you want help about mpeg2 remuxing...
And I don't accept request here anymore 

Original comment by ps3mediaserver@gmail.com on 19 Jan 2009 at 5:48

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