After failing to "convince" mplayer/osx to behave and listen to the flip-hebrew param a collegue of mine pointed out the next php script that does an adequate job (although it doesn't use fribidi). It worked ok for me so for public consumtion ... http://uploaded.fresh.co.il/2005/07/14/41338920.phps
Lior On 7/24/05, Kfir Lavi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I played in the past with mplayer and hebrew subs, and i found that > mplayer has fribidi support. > <snip man mplayer> > -flip-hebrew (FriBiDi only) > Turns on flipping subtitles using FriBiDi. > > -noflip-hebrew-commas > Change FriBiDi's assumptions about the placements of commas > in > subtitles. Use this if commas in subtitles are shown at > the > start of a sentence instead of at the end. > > -fribidi-charset <charset name> (FriBiDi only) > Specifies the character set that will be passed to FriBiDi > when > decoding non-UTF-8 subtitles (default: ISO8859-8). > </snip man mplayer> > > On 7/23/05, Lior Kesos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In the process of toying around with my new addition to the family - > > an OSX powered g4 ibook I tried to convert a subtitles file encoded in > > iso-8859-8-i to a readable format. > > When I run icon -l I have a list of encodings but do not have the -I . > > I tried to do the conversion on linux but still it apppears that I > > only have 8859-8. > > When I see the movie through mplayer I see the subs written with each > > word in hebrew but having the RTL mixed up. > > What can I do to take a -I encoded text and convert it to normal > > 8859-8 or simpply to re RTL the words... and is the only difference > > between 8 and 8-I the direction of the words? > > > > -- > > Peace Love and Penguins - > > Lior Kesos > > > > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > -- Peace Love and Penguins - Lior Kesos ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]