PotPlayer loads all subtitles regardless of filename

[V@no]

When relative path is added in "Custom Subtitle Storage Locations"

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The player totally ignores "Load any subs in folder if none matches" setting and load EVERY subtitle from that folder.

I've contacted the support and they've replied with:

Relative paths have been modified to load all subtitles, which is intended.
In other words, the previous version has a bug, and the current one is working properly.

And indeed, if set to full path, it works properly - no subtitles are loaded if non matched filename.

My question to you guys is, in what circumstance this could possibly be a desired behavior??? (I'm referring to relative paths would produce different result then full paths), would you consider this as a feature or a bug?

And just in case, this was "fixed" in v220831, so the last working version is v220706

[Ayaa]

In latest v2023 PoPlayer there are some changes. Try it.

[V@no]

In latest v2023 PoPlayer there are some changes. Try it.

Awesome! Thank you. Seems to be working properly.

I kind of gave up, after this reply from the developer:

Since the absolute folder is a folder that has nothing to do with the video being played, it is correct that the file name matches to be recognized as a subtitle, and the relative folder is under the folder where the video is located, so it is correct to think of it as a video subtitle even if the name is different.
Try to find the previous version yourself.
And if you don't like this policy, just use another program.

Interestingly, the latest version (230705) was release the next day after that reply and nothing related to subtitles in the changes log...