[MPlayer-users] libass failed me on Arabic subtitles
Reimar Döffinger
Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de
Sun Jan 22 09:19:52 CET 2012
On 22 Jan 2012, at 06:23, Zongyao Qu <zongyao.qu at gmail.com> wrote:
> on 2011/12/04, mplayer updated libASS to 0.10.
> Now I confirmed that this update broke the Arabic
> and Hebrew sub rendering, "the character order
> became LtoR"
>
> I tried to roll back libASS to 0.9.13, and it became
> OK again.
> I am not sure whether it is a libASS bug or mplayer
> missed something should set to libASS.
>
> and you could refer to:
> http://code.google.com/p/mplayerx/issues/detail?id=777
>
> and I tested this with command:
> ./mplayer -ass -font /Library/Fonts/Arial.ttf -subcp UTF-8
> -sub ~/Desktop/hebrew.utf8.srt /the/path/file/name/
Make sure configure detected fribidi.
A newer version is required now because it became a pain to stay compatible with the old one.
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