[leglug-users] arabic subtitles with totem

Ghaith Hachem blacksadness at gmail.com
Wed May 30 09:50:38 EDT 2007


sorry for the second reply, i have forgot to mention that i opened the
subtitle files with katoob and they are definitely arabic..

On 5/30/07, Ghaith Hachem <blacksadness at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>


-- 
Cheers,
Ghaith


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