Matroska Video - Audio/Subtitle stream selection?

[YiuKorochko]

After serious thought on how to improve the speed of my one-man parade, I've pretty much decided to move Sakkaku ni Dasu to a video-based story with intervals every few minutes to save and for choices to be made.

There are a few questions which arise though...

Is it possible to program a click-to-pause-video method?

In any case, and more importantly...can Ren'Py select specific streams for audio and subtitles? I would be far less keen to doing Sakkaku ni Dasu as a video-heavy VN if I had to hardsub each individual language and actually distribute gigs upon gigs of data.

Would it go something like this?

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if lang == "eng"
    video.play("Video 1.mkv",delay=none,audio_stream=1,subtitle_stream=1)
elif lang == "jap"
    video.play("Video 1.mkv",delay=none,audio_stream=2,subtitle_stream=2)

[PyTom]

Ren'Py's video playback support doesn't support either of these. Subtitles aren't necessary, as we could do them using the Ren'Py script language. Selecting an audio language is possible, but isn't supported yet.

This is one of those thing where it would require a substantial investment of time on my part to implement. If you can show you have a significant investment of time into your project (say, 15 minutes of original animation), I'll add them quickly. Otherwise, I'll wait until the next time I rewrite the audio code.

[YiuKorochko]

Alright, I'll just set a video to play with "stop music" set to off and just play a "music" stream based on the language which will include all music sfx and voice.

As for subtitles, I'll research into that! Is there anything in documentation on it?

I don't want specific features which would only benefit a very small portion of the community to be pushed onto you, Tom. I'll work with 6.12 as-is.

[PyTom]

There isn't much documentation at the moment. I suspect I'd have to be involved at one point - if you make the game, then I'll ready Ren'Py for it.

[YiuKorochko]

Alrighty then

Wow, SnD won't take several years now...

[YiuKorochko]

After having a quick sketch over, I'm guessing it will have to do with a modified version of the "Timed Menu" class...