[MPlayer-users] A UTF-16 srt hangs mencoder

[James Harvey]

The subtitles from http://www.tvsubtitles.net/download-114308.html
cause mencoder to hang for me.

Running this command line:

mencoder 'Law & Order S03E05 Wedded Bliss SD DVD.avi' -ovc xvid -oac
mp3lame -xvidencopts bitrate=1700 -vf scale=640:360
-sub '/home/jamespharvey30/Downloads/Law Order - 3x05 - Wedded
Bliss.DVDRip.en.srt' -subfont-text-scale 3 -o 'Law & Order S03E05
Wedded Bliss SD DVD.new.avi' -msglevel all=9

Creates the following output, and hangs with 100% CPU usage.

...
==========================================================================
SPU: Display only forced subs now disabled
[file] File size is 0 bytes
STREAM: [file] Law & Order S03E05 Wedded Bliss SD DVD.new.avi
STREAM: Description: File
STREAM: Author: Albeu
STREAM: Comment: based on the code from ??? (probably Arpi)
xvid: using library version 1.3.5 (build xvid-1.3.5)
Opening video filter: [expand osd=1]
Expand: -1 x -1, -1 ; -1, osd: 1, aspect: 0.000000, round: 1
Opening video filter: [scale w=640 h=360]
SwScale params: 640 x 360 (-1=no scaling)
[file] File size is 146061 bytes
STREAM: [file] /home/mdarling/Downloads/lo3/Law Order - 3x05 - Wedded
Bliss.DVDRip.en.srt
STREAM: Description: File
STREAM: Author: Albeu
STREAM: Comment: based on the code from ??? (probably Arpi)
SUB: Detected subtitle file format: subviewer

If I run:

iconv -f utf16le -t utf8 Law\ Order\ -\ 3x05\ -\ Wedded\
Bliss.DVDRip.en.srt > law305.srt

It warns "iconv: incomplete character or shift sequence at end of
buffer", but creates a .srt that mencoder properly uses.  On this
particular file, there is some garbage at the end of the last line.
Not sure if that means the original UTF-16 srt is corrupted, but even
so, maybe mencoder could be changed to not hang on it.