[MPlayer-dev-eng] Logical bidi subtitles (fribidi)

[Diego Biurrun]

Amir Hardon writes:
> The current implementation of fribidi in mplayer tells fribidi to calculate 
> the text direction, this is good, but for a perfect world.
> The popular proprietary players are not calculating the text direction but 
> assuming Left-To-Right, this caused most (if not all) of the existing 
> subtitles files being written incorrectly in order to be showed correctly.
> 
> Making the same situation for Mplayer is easy and requires changing one line,
> (For mplayer-1.0pre3try2 its line 1083 in subreader.c) from:
> base = FRIBIDI_TYPE_ON;
> to:
> base = FRIBIDI_TYPE_LTR;
> 
> But a better solution would be adding a runtime option for choosing the 
> direction(LTR, RTL, or auto). I am willing to implement this if someone can 
> guide or point me to some documents about adding new arguments, and how to 
> check for their values.

Options go into cfg-mplayer.h, just read a bit of the sources, it's
not hard.

Diego