From 235d9d4d88b83608419bcf462b535a00ee85910c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Miguel Freitas <miguelfreitas@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 22:08:07 +0000
Subject: add subtitle info obs: i don't have docbook installed here to rebuild
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CVS patchset: 3998
CVS date: 2003/01/23 22:08:07
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 doc/faq/faq.sgml | 17 ++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/faq/faq.sgml b/doc/faq/faq.sgml
index 497ec73d8..165040c0c 100644
--- a/doc/faq/faq.sgml
+++ b/doc/faq/faq.sgml
@@ -768,13 +768,24 @@
     <title> How can I watch files with external AVI subtitles?</title>
     
     <para>
-      This is not supported in current xine 1.0.x releases (but it is being
-      actively worked on, so please be patient :) ). In xine 0.9.13
-      this used to be:
+      In xine 0.9.13 this used to be:
       <programlisting>
         xine foo.avi%bar.sub
       </programlisting>    
     </para>
+    <para>
+      Latest xine-lib modules (1-beta3 or newer) support external subtitles
+      for any media file, not only AVI. In order to use it you can pass an
+      special MRL construction like:
+
+      <programlisting>
+        xine test.mpg#subtitle:file.sub
+      </programlisting>    
+
+      The external subtitles support can also be used by any xine
+      frontend. Currently, just xine-ui implements this feature with a
+      subtitle selection dialog (press control+shift+s to see it).  
+    </para>
   </sect1>
 
 </chapter>
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