Re: [Usability] totem and external audio tracks

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 14:29 +0400, Sun Web wrote:
> The only thing that is needed for dumping mplayer is this feature.
> External audio tracks is a must option for any video player nowadays.
> But it can be extended to a degree that none of existing players can
> do.

I don't see that. You're the second person to ask for this for Totem in
10 years.

> 1) grab audio source from the file with same name as video, let it
> work through simlinks too (none of linux players can do that). Let it
> add all audio tracks with the exact same name or by mask so that would
> add to the audio.mkv sounds: audio.mp3, audio2.mp3 and audio3.flac
> 2) extended manual approach. For example you have a show, you can make
> playlist and by clicking "external audio track" menu choose from what
> directory it will automaticly grab the sound for this playlist, but it
> won't use mask feature for obvious reasons. (there is no such thing in
> any player at all)
> 
> Also now there is no way to filter playlist, so they are adding as
> they are. Such feature should exist too.

See my comments on:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=629283

Cheers