Kaffeine

[Evan Leibovitch]

Clive DaSilva wrote:
> Question about the cd/dvd movie player Kaffeine. Is anyone aware of a
> plugin for this package which allows foreign movies without subtitles
> to be heard in English? Or any othe player which can do this ?
>
Kaffeine is certainly able, without an extra plugin, to switch between
different audio tracks for a video if they exist. For instance, if you
play a DVD that offers multi-lingual audio choices (or one that's Dolby
5.1 and another that's simple stereo), you can switch between them using
Player->Audio->AudioChannel. Of course your video needs to have an
English-language channel enabled for this to work.

One of the nice things about the open source implementation of DVD/DeCSS
playback is that it ignores the region code matching that usually
prevents North American players from playing disks aquired abroad (even
if legitimately purchased). I have examples of Brazilian, Hong Kong and
French DVDs that work fine. On these disks English is the alternate --
not the primary -- audio track, but they play fine for me.

- Evan
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