Cyrillic subtitles not working! (MPlayer of Kaffeine)

167224 · n00b Joined: 30 May 2007 Posts: 12

Hi, I have a subtitle problem.
I want to watch my favorite movies with Bulgarian subtitles, but when I open my video player ( for example "MPlayer" or "Kaffeine" ) there are no readable letters...

I've downloaded some Cyrillic font files from the Mplayer-homepage, but they are in raw-format. I can't find the tool to convert these fonts from raw in ttf format (TOOLS/subfont-c/ dir is present, but there is no program to compile / create ttf fonts ).

Does somebody know how to fix this? Thank for your help in advance.

yngwin · Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 3:43 pm Post subject:

Try using the dejavu font, it has glyphs for a great many scripts. Then use SMPlayer or VLC. In both of those you can specify the character encoding of the subtitles. (Should be possible with mplayer as well, but I don't know how, read the extensive manpage...)
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167224 · n00b Joined: 30 May 2007 Posts: 12

Works great with "VLC". Thank you.^^