[MPlayer-users] german language and .srt files?

[Dragan Noveski]

Marious S wrote:
> Dragan Noveski wrote:
>
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>> hi marious and thanks for your response, but i think that what i want to
>> know is not related to the subtitle program. ksubtile works good and
>> intuitiv for me and i can type german umlaut in it.
>> the question is, how i can tell to mplayer to display german umlaut?
>>     
>
> at the command line <mplayer subfont-encoding = unicode filename.avi>
> works perfectly for me for Greek srt files encoded with iso8859-7.  I
> have set up my config file to know that my subs are in that language
> though.  I guess you have to do the same substituting 8859-7 with the
> German codepage.
>
> This is not in any way intuitive or easy to guess btw so don't worry
> about it.  It took me quite a while to work out for Greek as well, it's
> easy to repeat once you work it out though:)
>
>   
>> anyway i ll give jubler a try and report later!
>>
>> cheers,
>> doc
>>
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>
>   
ok, i am sorry for the noise, i "played" now for about a hour with the 
preferences dialog and i got the right fonts/encoding settled up, so it 
works now good!

anyway, thanks for giving me support,
cheers,
doc