My Tech Notes

After a few attempts, I successfully made Russian subtitles to work correctly in mplayer. Here how it works:

• Download Cyrillic bitmap fonts from mplayer site (there are other collections there that might work as well);
• Unpack anywhere you want;
• Edit font.desc file, removing references to non-existing font files;
• Download (for instance, from here) or prepare subtitles (I used .srt file) in Windows (1251) encoding;
• Run mplayer like that:
  gmplayer -font <full path to font.desc> -sub <full path to .srt file> ...
• Don't forger that mplayer saves its options in ~/.mplayer directory and re-uses them by default, so on your next invocation either use your "default" parameter like -font /usr/local32/share/mplayer/font/font.desc, or remove relevant files from ~/.mplayer .

Labels: mplayer, video

# posted by Kostya @ 10:57 AM