[vlc] Issues with subtitles with the Python bindings

[Mike Fabre]

On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 11:18:28AM +1100, Mike Fabre wrote:
> I got some help with this issue in the IRC channel, but didn't manage
> to solve the problem. Hopefully I can get some more help here.
> 
> I've got an RTP stream with zvbi subtitles that all works find in the
> standard VLC GUI, I select the right subtitles track in Video->Subtitles
> and it starts appearing on the screen. However when using the Python
> bindings for VLC with the same RTP stream, the subtitles track is
> recognized, and there's no errors raised when setting the subtitles
> track but no subtitles start rendering on the video. Both the GUI and
> the Python bindings work fine when using .avi file with .srt or .idx &
> .sub files.
> 
> The logs from when everything works fine indicates that VLC loads the
> necessary demux module to read the subtitles (telx/zvbi/vobsub) and then
> shortly after it loads the blend module. However when Python fails with
> the zvbi subtitles it loads the zvbi module, but never even tries to
> load the blend module. Is the GUI doing something hacky to load the
> blend module itself when the VLC library won't?

Oh, I forgot to mention, I'm stuck with Ubuntu 10.04 and haven't been
able to get any VLC newer than 1.1 working. That's not a big deal for me
as we'll be upgrading from 10.04 soon, I just need these subtitles
working.

-- 
Mike Fabre