[MPlayer-users] libass failed me on Arabic subtitles

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Wed, Feb 01, 2012 at 11:54:30AM +0000, Zongyao Qu wrote:
> Reimar Döffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger <at> gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > 
> > On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 10:17:03PM +0000, Zongyao Qu wrote:
> > (please apologize the option name, it applies to arabic
> > just as much  ).
> 
> Just to report that, the recent commit 
> 
> Do not apply writing order via fribidi when libass will be doing it.
> This lead to the order being flipped twice, and thus looking
> as if it was not done at all.
> 
> did NOT fix this bug.

It fixes it for embedded, non-ASS subs.
It does not fix it for external non-ASS subs together
with -ass though, and I am not yet completely sure
how to fix it (it might be possible in exactly the
same way, but don't know).