On Jun 29, 2009, at 5:08 PM, Ehud Karni wrote:
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.
Thanks. I specified Xine because the computer the videos will be watched on runs KNOPPMYTH and uses Xine. I can't change it because although it would be trivial to change the player for ALL avi files, it's impossible to play just one with a different player. To switch them all would require reprograming the remote control which is something I would prefer to never do. Once was enough.
The other "system" is an Infinity brand DVD player (150 NIS at Home Center) that runs some sort of Linux and a version of MPLAYER. It works fine with the same subtitle files as Xine does, and I can't/ won't change anything.
I'll check out yours (and Sarah's) suggestions. I appreciate them. Thanks, Geoff. -- geoffrey mendelson N3OWJ/4X1GM Jerusalem Israel [email protected] _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
