Can't play a video when its external audio not available
Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2019 2:41 pmSMPlayer is my primary video player, its options "Remember settings for all files", as well as "Remember time position" and "Remember settings for streams", are enabled.
This, however, creates a big problem when I'm using an external audio file (e.g. another translation for a movie, loaded manually).
SMPlayer remembers the external audio file and loads it each time the video file is played again, which is good.
Now, the problem:
if the external audio file is renamed or moved to another location, SMPlayer fails to play the primary video file at all!
I.e. SMPlayer loads the video file and then immediately stops.
I did not find a better way to fix this problem except manual deletion of the whole SMPlayer's "file_settings" folder. Which is definitely not a good solution.
My proposal:
- when SMPlayer can't load an external audio file, it should just skip this step and continue with the default audio stream (the one inside the video file). SMPlayer must not stop in perplexity in this case!
This, however, creates a big problem when I'm using an external audio file (e.g. another translation for a movie, loaded manually).
SMPlayer remembers the external audio file and loads it each time the video file is played again, which is good.
Now, the problem:
if the external audio file is renamed or moved to another location, SMPlayer fails to play the primary video file at all!
I.e. SMPlayer loads the video file and then immediately stops.
I did not find a better way to fix this problem except manual deletion of the whole SMPlayer's "file_settings" folder. Which is definitely not a good solution.
My proposal:
- when SMPlayer can't load an external audio file, it should just skip this step and continue with the default audio stream (the one inside the video file). SMPlayer must not stop in perplexity in this case!