[Feature request] button to pick subtitle

Ok, thanks for the answer.

Don't you think a single osd with all infos and options in one place would be more usefull? This way you only need one 'osd-button' to bring up all the options you need in fullscreen. Since you stated the info pane and the new menu-pane are quite the same anyway, I vote for a merge. I think two similar looking panes with different functions will confuse the user.

Hello, any hint when the new version will be up...? Just can't wait!

Lovely work on the subtitle integration!

I do agree with topkat on merging the osd's.

i'll see what i can do.
it's not as straight forward as it may seem to be.

the info pane has several different layouts, it will show different info based on the content you're playing.
most noticeably, if you playing episodes, it will show ClearArt (if enabled),
for dvd's it will display chapter info.
the ones for musicvideos and live-tv are also slightly different from the other ones.

so a lot more work has to be done on the osd menu i you want to get the same functionality in there...provided there's enough space left to add all the info.

Well, no hurry, but this would be a really advance over other skins.

Uhm, we're getting a bit offtopic, but to be honest, my main concern about xbmc is that the gui still feels a bit 'console-like'. Back when we had xbmc running on the xbox, the main input device was the controller. Since it has a lot of buttons, it made sense to dedicate buttons to a single function.

Now that xbmc shifts to dedicated htpc-hardware, I think a remote control with usally only one 'menu/osd'-button will be the main 'controller'. Just like standalone devices, you usally have only one key on the remote to brings up a menu/osd with all options in one place. I think xbmc should behave the same.

But, do what you feel to do, I'm happy with it.

Looking at the 'slowness' of opensubtitles.org, I saw this same topic over at boxee and one can choose between 2 different subtitel sites.

Would this be an option for this effort in Transparency!

No offense to anyone and apprecitae all the hard work and efforts. Just adding another twist into the equation ;-)

Anyway, another bite of food for thought.

pooh Wrote:Looking at the 'slowness' of opensubtitles.org, I saw this same topic over at boxee and one can choose between 2 different subtitel sites.

Would this be an option for this effort in Transparency!

No offense to anyone and apprecitae all the hard work and efforts. Just adding another twist into the equation ;-)

Anyway, another bite of food for thought.

which subtitle sites are available is entirely up to the guy(s) who made the plugin.
they recently added Sublight as an option, so i guess your request is already taken care of. ;-)

ronie Wrote:which subtitle sites are available is entirely up to the guy(s) who made the plugin.
they recently added Sublight as an option, so i guess your request is already taken care of. ;-)

So it seems :-)

I guess by now, many of us are eager to see the beast. Hope you don't want to be 'perfect' before releasing it. Although very much appreciative we will be for that effort, I see many opportunities to all of us assisting you in that, and no one will hate you for doing that ;-)

Cheers!