[MPlayer-users] rc2 subtitle mess-up

[Pál, János]

2007/12/31, Ivan Kalvachev <ikalvachev at gmail.com>:
>
> On Dec 29, 2007 8:46 PM, Pál, János <ioannes.pavlvs at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 2007/12/9, Pál, János <ioannes.pavlvs at gmail.com>:
> > >
> > > 2007/12/9, Ulion <ulion2002 at gmail.com>:
> > > >
> > > > 2007/12/9, Pál, János <ioannes.pavlvs at gmail.com>:
> > > > > 2007/12/9, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <dominik at rangers.eu.org>:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On Saturday, 08 December 2007 at 19:27, Pál, János wrote:
> > > > > > > Hi,
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > I just downloaded the new MPlayer 1.0 rc2 binary for Windows.
> I'm
> > > > using
> > > > > > > Win2k.
> > > > > > > I tried a film with Hungarian subtitles, and saw that some
> letters
> > > > with
> > > > > > > accents get messed up. At first I thought it was only because
> of
> > > > the new
> > > > > > > font, so I set it back to good old Arial.
> > > > > > > Unfortunately the bug still remained - although previous
> versions
> > > > didn't
> > > > > > > have it. I haven't tried it on other operating systems yet.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > My guess is that you're using an incorrect charset for reading
> the
> > > > > > subtitle
> > > > > > files.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Regards,
> > > > > > R.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > --
> > > > > > MPlayer developer and RPMs maintainer: http://mplayerhq.hu
> > > > > > http://rpm.livna.org
> > > > > > There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times
> and
> > > > > > oppression to develop psychic muscles.
> > > > > >         -- from "Collected Sayings of Muad'Dib" by the Princess
> > > > Irulan
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > but these scrambled characters are all in the basic Western
> European
> > > > > charset: ISO-8859-1. They should display fine. In Win2k you can't
> set
> > > > the
> > > > > non-unicode programs charset to anything else - if I'm correct.
> > > > > I looked at the manpage to see what I can do about it. I couldn't
> find
> > > > the
> > > > > relevant setting.
> > > > >
> > > > > Can you help me on this?
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > What's the value of subcp set in your config file or command line?
> > > > Can you attach the srt?
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Ulion
> > >
> > >
> > > Okay, so this is the option I was looking for. I didn't look at the
> man
> > > page carefully enough. :) Thanks very much!
> > > When explicitly giving -subcp iso-8859-1 (or actually for Hungarian
> it's
> > > best to use iso-8859-2) everything displays as it should. How can I
> tell
> > > what code page the default detection finds?
> > > Earlier I didn't set anything myself. Everything was left on default,
> the
> > > subtitle file name is the same as the movie file name, so it
> automatically
> > > loaded it and detected its format - and I suppose the code page as
> well.
> > > After starting I have these lines:
> > > SUB: Detected subtitle file format: subviewer
> > > SUB: Read 837 subtitles.
> > > SUB: Added subtitle file (1): ./some_movie.srt
> > >
> > > Nothing about the code page here.
> > > I'll include the subtitle file anyway - in case it's beneficial for
> > > someone:
> > > http://fotojani.extra.hu/mplayer_bug/some_movie.srt
> > >
> > > Cheers and thanks again,
> > > J.
> > >
> >
> >
> > Hi again!
> >
> > Just a small note. I tried rc2 under WinXP too and it's the same. No
> matter
> > what I set the default code page to, any Hungarian subtitle will only
> > display right if I add the following lines to my config (or similar
> stuff to
> > the command line):
> >
> > font=c:/windows/fonts/arial.ttf
> > subcp=iso-8859-2
> >
> > The first because the included subfont.ttf doesn't contain 2 sole
> Hungarian
> > letters (ő/Ő, ű/Ű). I'm thinking of hacking it just for fun. :)
> > The second one because of the wrong code page detection. Too bad this
> > functionality isn't present any more. Does anyone know why it
> disappeared in
> > the new release?
>
> Codepage autodetection is done by enca package. If it is compiled in,
> you can turn it on with "subcp=enca:hu:iso-8859-2"


Yes, I've tried that before and I suppose that enca isn't compiled in the
downloadable win32 rc2 distro, because nothing changes whether I enter your
line or not. Is there an easier way of adding it than re-compiling the whole
thing myself for Windows?