[MPlayer-users] Subtitles are not displayed correctly.

[Jozef Riha]

hi roger,

i am using mplayer in all mentioned version (pre7, 8, svn), when
compiling i always set --enable-freetype or such (dont remember it
precisely) and I have absolutely no problem w/ displaying subtitles
(subcp=cp1250 and font=/path/to/luxi-sans.ttf) in both czech and
slovak languages..

may i be of any more help, you can also write me in czech/slovak at my
personal address or use gmails jabber when you see me online.

cheers,

-- joe

On 7/19/06, Roger Krowiak <roger.krowiak at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> the problem:
>
>        I'm encountering problem with subtitles using some slovak/czech
> characters. Most of them are displayed correctly, but there are
> exceptions: instead of 'š' (in ISO 8859-2 the hex value 0xB9) it
> displays 'ź' (0xBF), also instead of 'ž' (0xBE) there is 'ź' (0xBF). The
> character 'ý' (0xFD) is not displayed at all. Also some combination of
> characters have mixed order. For example the word 'těším' is displayed
> as 'tíźěm' - the charachter 'š' is not only wrongly displayed but the
> character-order is altered. (I hope the characters in this mail will be
> displayed correctly, I've set the mail encoding to ISO 8859-2).
>
>
> what I've tried:
>
>        This behaviour was not present in mplayer-1.0pre7, but with
> mplayer-1.0pre8 it is present. I've downloaded today (19.7.2006) the SVN
> version, but the problem is still present. I was checking the the fonts
> in ~/.mplayer/font directory. As the subtitles are encoded in CP1250,
> I've used the 'Arial - Central European (CP1250)' font pack - but the
> problem was still present. Then I've converted the subtitles from cp1250
> encoding into ISO 8859-2 (using the cstocs utility). I've copied the
> fonts from 'Arial - Central European (ISO 8859-2)' font pack, but the
> problem was the same.
>
>
> what I'm using:
>
>        I'm running Slackware-current, the kernel is 2.6.17.4 PREEMPT on AMD
> Athlon XP 3000+. The example of subtitles which are causing me the
> problems can be found at
> http://www.pieskovisko.sk/~roger/subtitles_example.tar.bz2.
>
>
> Thank you for any help,
>
>
> Roger