[MPlayer-users] OSD & Subtitles

[Attila Kinali]

On Wed, 09 Jul 2003 10:47:17 +0300
"eminem Stan" <greatrambo at hotmail.com> wrote:

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi, this is my first post, and my first time to use pipermail, quite 
> difficult.
> My question is about language support for subtitles.
> Mplayer, and gmplayer work perfectly on my Redhat 8.0 pentiim III 800Mhz 
> 512MB,
> even better than windoze media player.
> However trying to load arabic subtitles leads to garbage and an error in the 
> console.

hmm ? what error ? please read bugreports.html

> I tried microsoft's arabic ttf with different encodings for input and 
> display but I just get different types of garbage.
> I then tried the raw => ttf converter in the TOOLS directory and made 
> different sets of encodings with and without unicode ( for arabic iso-8859-6 
> cp-1256 ). Then I used the generated RAW and .desc files with corresponding 
> settings in gmplayer. The effects varied from crashes to more garbage, and 
> sometimes errors in the console about bad syntax in the .desc file....
> It is noteworthy however that I have arabic rendering everywhere in kde 
> working perfectly ( including the console !!). I thus tried to compile 
> kmplayer kmp etc to see if it solves the problem but they are all alpha and 
> broken. Dead end.


mplayer has nothing to do with anything what kde does.
I has it's own character render engine.
Did you read the documentation about OSD ?


			Attila Kinali

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