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Magnet	2009-07-22 , 11:29
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well i'm trying to view heb subtitles but it shows it in non hebrew fonts. how can i change in a simple way the font to see it correctly.

btw, in the browser i see hebrew perfectly after installing hebrew pack ans fonts.

or maybe there is another player which can change subtitles font?

thanks. i'm using n810.

Last edited by Magnet; 2009-07-22 at 11:32.

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gogabr	2009-07-22 , 13:55
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The command-line mplayer has a -subcp option to indicate the codepage of subtitles. I don't know whether any GUI players support this functionality.

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Magnet	2009-07-22 , 17:43
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So is there any option to view in hebrew fonts?

Thanks.

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gogabr	2009-07-23 , 08:13
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You write something like

mplayer -subcp cp1255 -sub <fname>.srt <fname>.avi

(I don't know what actual codepage Hebrew speakers use, it might be iso8859-8.)
Also, if the default font does not have Hebrew symbols, you could use the -subfont switch.

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Magnet	2009-07-23 , 08:29
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Thanks for the replies!

But what is -subfont switch?

Thanks.

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gogabr	2009-07-23 , 08:52
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Actually, as I've just checked, you can put the line

subcp = cp1255

in your /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf file, and the GUI player should pick it up. (I don't have canola, so I used kmplayer for experimenting; I also used Russian and cp1251 because I don't have any Hebrew subtitles.)