[leglug-users] arabic subtitles with totem

Ghaith Hachem blacksadness at gmail.com
Wed May 30 09:49:35 EDT 2007


well it's many movies, and the some subtitles are just separate files
loaded on start i have no problem with the english ones, just the
arabic files wouldn't load right it's probably an encoding issue.. i
tried with vlc as well with no luck

On 5/30/07, Alaa Salman <alaasalman at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> You mean subtitles in movies? Yeah sure, i use them all the time(i often
> read them in English, but i have used Arabic as well).
>
> I use both totem and vlc but i prefer vlc. I am not sure if this is a font
> issue. I don't think subtitles work that way...i am not sure about this
> though. Did you rule out the issue that you have a bad movie?
>
> Regards,
> Alaa Salman
>
>
> On 5/30/07, Ghaith Hachem <blacksadness at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > hey,
> > I've been trying to get arabic subtitles to work with totem but all i
> > get is a series of ####### instead, i've installed every arabic font i
> > could find, and i've tried to set the encoding in totem properies with
> > no luck.
> > Has anyone got it to work? Or is there another player able to get the
> > subtitles working?
> >
> >
> > --
> > Cheers,
> > Ghaith
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-- 
Cheers,
Ghaith


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