Comments on: Mplayer With Arabic Subtitles FIX

By: Ahmed S. Farghal

Ahmed S. Farghal — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 10:49:50 +0000

It’s very easy though

No, mplayer is complied on Linux and not windows, you can download and compile it yourself for windows, I don’t support windows anyway

you don’t have to be programmer to install this! just follow the installation steps and everything should run OK.

I’m now preparing an upgrade for fedora 8 with pulseaudio patch.

By: Mohamad elkhatib

Mohamad elkhatib — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 23:42:18 +0000

salam ya akhi ahmed

i am not so talented in computer programing
so i wish that you can simplify this procedure
that everybody can understand it and applied it simply.

i have another question, is this method work in windows XP or not ?
i appreciate that u e-mail me, i really need this arabic subtitles.

thank u in advance.

By: Ahmed S. Farghal

Ahmed S. Farghal — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 21:12:54 +0000

sorry shabab,
currently I’m not interested in SuSE or Debian!

By: Ahmed-Linux

Ahmed-Linux — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 21:18:53 +0000

What about Debian users …

we want somthing in *.deb packages

thanks alot

By: ahmed

ahmed — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 18:02:24 +0000

Ahmed Soilamn , Good work coz u r doing great
but i wanna ask and i hope to find the help here
did ur package work with Opensuse 10.2 ?
i think no , but can help me out to got arabic subtitle working with Mplayer in SUSE 10.2

By: Ahmed S. Farghal

Ahmed S. Farghal — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 14:38:14 +0000

please remove ~/.mplayer directory and things will work just ok

this command converts the subtitles encoding from windows-1256 arabic encoding to the standard unicode encoding.

btw, you can use the script I made directly, just pass the subtitles filename and it’ll do the nasty work for you

By: mo3az

mo3az — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 10:20:29 +0000

ok .. ana download rpms again without libfribidi0 and libfribidi0-devel then save them in /opt/mplayer then 3amlt yum -y localinstall * when i was in the directory
/opt/mplayer ….. then ro7t 3amlt

#mv movie.sub movie.sub.old
#iconv -f windows-1256 -t utf8 movie.sub.old > movie.sub
# rm movie.sub.old

ok .. there is arabic characters on the movie but not connected and havenot mean ?

then fi another Question plz : i dont get use of :
iconv -f windows-1256 -t utf8 movie.sub.old > movie.sub
?

thax

By: Ahmed S. Farghal

Ahmed S. Farghal — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 04:21:54 +0000

Thanks mo3az,

Please remove libfribidi0 and libfribidi0-devel from the directory before localinstall, then try again and all your problems should just go away

Please see NOTE 2

By: mo3az

mo3az — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 15:20:55 +0000

sorry de kaman kanet 7aslt lama 3malt #yum localinstall *
–> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: libfribidi0 conflicts with fribidi0
Error: libfribidi0-devel conflicts with fribidi0
??

By: mo3az

mo3az — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 15:11:34 +0000

really ya ahmed … walahy enta great man .. begad enta 7′orafa besm allah mash2 allah .. i just try it now .. bas fi problem so3′yera .. en ana 3amlt kol 7aga bas el mplayer not setuped on linux mish 3aref ezay … 3ashan fi rpms kitte 3aweza dependences ! zay
[root@localhost mplayer]# rpm -ivh mplayer-1.0-0.72.20070325svn.AhmedSoliman.com.i386.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
libcaca.so.0 is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.72.20070325svn.AhmedSoliman.com.i386
libcucul.so.0 is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.72.20070325svn.AhmedSoliman.com.i386

so plz help me