SMPlayer / Bugs / #508 Arabic subtitles are inverted

#508 Arabic subtitles are inverted

Milestone: stable

Status: closed-fixed

Owner: nobody

Labels: general (155)

Priority: 5

Updated: 2016-01-15

Created: 2012-05-17

Creator: ENigma885

Private: No

**Problem:
- Loading .srt Arabic subtitles using SMplayer displays them inverted from left to right.
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**Environment:
-SMPlayer 8.0 as downloaded from
https://sourceforge.net/projects/smplayer/files/SMPlayer/0.8.0/smplayer-0.8.0-win32.exe/download (for Windows version)
and from SMPlayer ppa @ ppa:rvm/smplayer (Linux version)
- Windows 7 sp1 and the same goes with Ubuntu 12.04.
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**Further Notes:
- The problem appears only when selecting "Enable SSA/ASS subtitles" from the subtitles options.
- Selecting "Enable normal subtitles" displays the subtitles in proper orientation.
- A screenshot can be accessed from http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/502/smplayerarsubs.jpg/
- Other formats were not tested only .srt was.

Discussion

ENigma885 - 2012-05-18

For some reason a I have received a comment from Josh (redxii)
Date: 2012-05-17 21:24
Message:
"It occurs in both Linux and Windows or just Windows?"
But the comment is not there anymore.

So, as an answer: yes it occurs on both Windows and Linux as described in the Environment part of the bug report.

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Josh - 2012-05-19

It's a MPlayer bug, currently it can be worked around by disabling ASS/SSA as you've done.

http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-users/2012-February/084078.html

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Bharat - 2012-07-23

Hi can I work on this. Please assign this to me.

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Moussab Bhr - 2013-05-19

Hello,

I'm running on the same problem on windows 7 64 bit. The problem can be solved by disabling SSA subtitles, however the subtitles become ugly and there's no shadows behind the subtitle and their size can't be changed.

I noticed that I don't face this problem when I use UMPlayer (which is basically based on an old version of SMPlayer. I'm no developer, but I think if someone digs on UMPlayer source code, he can find out the source of the problem.

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Ricardo Villalba - 2013-05-20

I think it's a problem of mplayer. I suggest to try the package with mplayer2, I tested with some arabic subtitles and I think it doesn't have this problem.

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- Moussab Bhr - 2013-05-20
  
  Same problem http://i.imgur.com/YCBLzUu.jpg
  
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Moussab Bhr - 2013-05-20

I don't face that problem on smplayer 0.8.5 on ubuntu 13.04 64 bits

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TurboMan™ - 2013-12-07

Go to Preferences then Advanced then select Options for Mplayer Tab and enter this on Options: -noflip-hebrew

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Ricardo Villalba - 2013-12-11

Now (r5938) smplayer uses the option -noflip-hebrew when using -ass, so the problem should be fixed.

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Ricardo Villalba - 2013-12-11

status: open --> closed-fixed

Group: --> version_0.8.x
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