Bug#458018: vlc: spuriously detects arbitrary text files as subtitle files

[Drake Wilson]

Quoth Christophe Mutricy <xtophe at nxtelevision.com>, on 2007-12-29 18:32:23 +0100:
> Seems like the algo to detect the name of possible subtitle files is
> confused by the very short name of your video.

Okay, that explains why.

> So you can use --no-sub-autodetect-file or increase the value of
> --sub-autodetect-fuzzy (or in the preferences in video/subtitles and
> select advnaced options in the bottom right corner)

And that explains how to avoid it.  Fixed locally by altering
preferences.  Thanks.

This now becomes a wishlist item, something to the effect of
"automatic subtitle file detection should not default to
random-looking behavior for very short filenames".  Possibly just
avoiding automatic detection for such files would work, or
constraining the fuzzy-match more as the filename gets shorter.

> Xtophe

   ---> Drake Wilson