[MPlayer-users] Hebrew subtitles in MPlayer

[Jindrich Makovicka]

On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 04:02:27PM +0100, Bohdan Horst wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 04:56:09PM +0200, Pavel Bibergal wrote:
> > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> > Hi all, does anyone have an idea how to add hebrew subtitle support to 
> > mplayer?
> > i added a hebrew font.. did everything now i can watch movies with 
> > hebrew subcaptions..
> > but the problem is that hebrew is flipped.. of course i wrote a external 
> > application that flip susbtitle so i can watch them normally.. but what 
> > i want is to have internal mplayer support for bidirectional languages.. 
> > maybe using bribidi library will help?
> > 
> > If anyone succeseed to make any thing in the topic.. please reply!
> > thanx
> 
> did you try Unicode font ? (with freetype)

This won't help, it would be necessary to modify sub.c substantially. Of
course, current OSD developers aren't much motivated...

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Jindrich Makovicka