[MPlayer-users] Problems with srt subtitles display

[Reimar =?UTF8?Q?D=F6ffinger?=]

Hi,
On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 12:48:19AM +0000, Guillermo Movia wrote:
> Hi, when i try to see an avi file with srt subtitles, i have problems
> with the file codification. I am from Argentina and the subtitles are
> in spanish. Some characters are bad display,
> how can i configure mplayer to display correctly this characters or in
> which codification i have to save my srt file.

See also http://bugzilla.mplayerhq.hu/show_bug.cgi?id=199
If you use a ttf OSD font, use the subcp option or compile MPlayer with
enca support or convert the subtitle with iconv to e.g. utf8
If you use a bitmap font, convert the subtitle to the same charset or
add unicode mappings to the .desc file and use the same solutions as for
ttf.

Greetings,
Reimar D?ffinger