[MPlayer-dev-eng] utf-16 encoded subtitle files

Diego Biurrun diego at biurrun.de
Sat Jul 11 21:03:30 CEST 2009


On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 07:59:51PM +0100, Magnus Leuthner wrote:
> 
> mplayer fails with a rather unhelpful message ("could not detect file
> format") in case of utf-16 encoded subtitle files passed to the -sub
> parameter. Attached is a patch that gives a more helpful message about
> the unsupported character encoding.

Could you provide a short sample subtitle file for testing?

Diego



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