Fixing RTL (Mainly Hebrew and Arabic) subtitles problems

[uelias]

The problem above ("the last letter of every paragraph is displayed at the start of the paragraph") continues
also in VLC 0.8.6c -wxWidgets interface on XP. To explain it, let A,B,C,D,E,... represent hebrew characters.
If the subtitle that should be displayed, from right to left, is
EDCBA
then VLC displays in fact
DCBAE

[dionoea]

Hum, that sounds bad. Does a nightly development build work better? ( http://nightlies.videolan.org )

[uelias]

I installed vlc-0.8.6d-win32.exe from branch-20070726-0330/

Unfortunately, the answer is positive: the hebrew subtitle is displayed as described above.

[dionoea]

can you try a 0.9.0 version? (0.8.6d is a bugfix release only ... so it's missing a lot of the changes made in the last 6 months)

[uelias]

Thanks. vlc-0.9.0-svn-20070717-0000-win32.exe displays the hebrew subtitles correctly.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Yes, the fribidi code hqs been rewritten and subtitles have improved a lot.

[jim_hill_au]

Hi j-b

With 0.8.6 (c and d) i do not have the problems with hebrew subtitles that others reported here.

The subtitles are created by some python code i wrote, in utf-8, with unicode CTL codes added. ( I work with translators, and prepare their texts for use by software that creates subtitle images, usually Belle Nuit, and it needs the CTL codes.)

The CTL codes used are RLE (RtL Embed) at the start of each line,
and PDF (Pop Directional Format) at the end of each line.
Embedded latin text and digits come out the right way round.

But there is one problem:
the CTL codes are shown on screen;
exactly how depends on the font being used,
usually a large empty square.

What chance this will be fixed? It may be easy?
MPC already does it right, but i'd rather use VLC, if possible.

Tried the 2008 Feb 19 nightly build, but don't see any video.
not even a blank screen. tried with an mp4 and an mpg.
can hear the sound OK.

best
jh

[rafiklouis7]

Now could anyone help me how can i fix the Arabic subtitle problem ??

[ali980]

I have downloaded the build:
http://nightlies.videolan.org/build/win ... 0613-0003/

And the Arabic Subtitle worked finally .
I didn't used any spacial options.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

I have downloaded the build:
http://nightlies.videolan.org/build/win ... 0613-0003/

And the Arabic Subtitle worked finally .
I didn't used any spacial options.

Thanks for the confirmation. I have been waiting for confirmation since a long time.

[numediaweb]

find below a video dealing with such problem, you can follow easily and enable win XP and VLC to display subs correctly:

http://blip.tv/file/3206649
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5ztMado9lo

btw it is in arabic but you will understand the steps!