[MPlayer-users] libass failed me on Arabic subtitles

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 10:17:03PM +0000, Zongyao Qu wrote:
> 
> > Does configure detect that version or not?
> > If not, check config.log for more information on why.
> > 
> It detected as usual.
> and if I do NOT use -ass, it is rendered OK from R to L.

I suspect MPlayer does the flipping twice.
Could you try
-ass -noflip-hebrew?
(please apologize the option name, it applies to arabic
just as much :-) ).