[MPlayer-users] unreadable ass subtitle file

[Roberto Malinverni]

> -----Messaggio originale-----
> Da: Uoti Urpala [mailto:uoti.urpala at pp1.inet.fi] 
> Inviato: mercoledì 16 dicembre 2009 10:41
> A: MPlayer usage questions, feature requests,bug reports
> Oggetto: Re: [MPlayer-users] unreadable ass subtitle file
> 
> On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 08:47 +0100, Roberto Malinverni wrote:
> > I'm trying to play a mkv that comes with a subtitle track 
> > in "ass" format.
> > Both mplayer SVN-r29996 (with internal ass library) and mplayer 
> > git-c3c0309 (with an up-to-date ass library) give:
> > 
> > [ass] no charmap autodetected, trying the first one
> > 
> > and instead of the subtitles, a line of strange gliphs is displayed 
> > (all the file become "strange gliphs"...).
> > The subtitles file is UTF-8 encoded, if that matters, and I 
> > couldn't 
> > find anything strange in it.
> > I already tried to demux/remux the matroska, with no effect.
> > Does someone have a clue?
> 
> Do the subtitles contain ASCII characters or only non-ASCII 
> ones? If they do contain ASCII but even that is not properly 
> displayed then it could be a problem with the font. Does the 
> file contain embedded fonts?
> If so then does -noembeddedfonts change the behavior?
> 
> Any further tests will be easier to do if you post a sample. 
> If the problem occurs without using the particular embedded 
> fonts in the file then just the subtitle track extracted with 
> mkvextract should be enough to reproduce it.

Thanks for your answer.
The subtitle file contains both ascii and non ascii characters; the mkv does
come with embedded fonts.
the option "-noembeddedfonts" doesn't change anything - I tried even to
remux the mkv without the fonts.
I tested the mkv with an older mplayer version (svn r29484) and it works
fine.
Attaching the subtitle file makes this post too big for the list.
If needed, I can provide a 5Mb/30sec sample of the mkv along with the fonts
and the complete subtitles:
since I read something in the devel mailing list regarding an imminent
cleanup of incoming,
it's fine if I use megaupload or something similar?
Regards,
Roberto


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