[MPlayer-users] Greek subtitles

[yourself]

Konstantinos Georgokitsos wrote:
> Dear list,
> 
> I am trying to get my Greek subtitles (.srt file) to work. Initially the 
> coding was iso-8859-7 (or cp1253). That showed only strange characters. I 
> then iconv-ed the file to utf-8 and with option -utf8 I now see blank 
> underlines. I have the feeling that the standard font used in both cases by 
> mplayer is at fault. 

Yes, I believe it doesn't have greek characters

> I did not find in the options a way to set the font. Can somebody suggest 
> anything?

try the:
font=/path/to/a/truetypefont/conatining/greek/chars.ttf
subfont-encoding=ISO-8859-7

in your .mplayer/config file.

I use the tahoma font and it's sweet.

> BTW, in the end I want to use mencoder to include the subtitles in the video 
> itself. Any hints there?

bad idea...

to Konstantinos alone: na sai kala file!

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yourself