[MPlayer-users] Subtitles almost perfect...

[Hric Pavol]

Artur Zaprzala wrote:

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read 
> DOCS/bugreports.html &
> http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.96.html if you still have questions or problems]
>
> Hric Pavol wrote:
>
>> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read 
>> DOCS/bugreports.html &
>> http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.96.html if you still have questions or 
>> problems]
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have mplayer-0.50 installed on my Fujitsu E Series laptop. 
>> Everything works fine, it' really great stuff :-))
>> Especially DGA driver gives incredible results wiht MPEG-4 movies.
>> The only problem I have is with the subtitles - I use 
>> mp-arial-iso-8859-2 font from mplayer homepage but I
>> can not get two characters get displayed : " š " and  " ž " . It 
>> happend with more movies with czech dubing. I tried the
>
>
> Are you sure you have iso-8859-2 subtitles? cp1250 is very common.
> Solutions:
> -- convert subtitles to iso (with iconv)
> -- generate font for cp1250
> -- generate unicode font for latin2 charset with subfont-c and use 
> -subcp cp1250 option of CVS mplayer
>
> You were right , it was windows-1250 encoding - the first (and easiest 
> ) solution with iconv worked fine. :-)

Thanx .

Pavol

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