OT: Where to find Xine compatible Hebrew subtitle files?

[geoffrey mendelson]

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.
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