[MPlayer-users] rc2 subtitle mess-up

[Ulion]

2008/1/1, Pál, János <ioannes.pavlvs at gmail.com>:
> 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?

Ask the package supplier add this feature when he make the package next time.

-- 
Ulion