On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:38:54 sara fink wrote: > > http://code.google.com/p/subflip/ this is a script that will > convert subtitles to work with xine
>From the help I understand it works for UTF-8 only (i.e. not for ISO-8859-8). Most Hebrew subtitles use the ISO-8859-8 encoding, of course you can covert (with iconv) but why bother ? You can use the VLC player which works very well on UBUNTU - http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-ubuntu.html . It does show Hebrew (if you have a Hebrew font), both UTF-8 and ISO-8859-8, with bidi reordering. If you use ISO-8859-8 subtitle you should set it in the VLC options and NOT let it auto detect it. The auto detection works, but many times the first and last characters are not displayed. > > As for web sites to download subtitles in hebrew (maybe they won't work with > xine and you will need to convert them) take a look at these good sites: > > http://subscene.com/subtitles/hebrew.aspx This is a good pointer for English subtitles, but the number of Hebrew subtitles is not impressive. Two Israeli sites (both have roughly the same reservoir of Hebrew subtitles, I like the 1st): http://www.sratim.co.il/movies/subtitles/ http://www.torec.net/movies.asp Another international subtitle site I use - http://www.allsubs.org/ Ehud. -- Ehud Karni Tel: +972-3-7966-561 /"\ Mivtach - Simon Fax: +972-3-7976-561 \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign Insurance agencies (USA) voice mail and X Against HTML Mail http://www.mvs.co.il FAX: 1-815-5509341 / \ GnuPG: 98EA398D <http://www.keyserver.net/> Better Safe Than Sorry _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
