please help me to show arabic subtitle
 

hello
please i need help to show arabic subtitle in any video player
thanks

using xine?

If you *have* the titles then it's just making sure they are the right format. If you have say an AVI with .idx (timing data) and .sub file (rendered subtitles) then in say VLC it's just choosing the files as subtitle. If you *don't * have the titles or they are not in rendered format then I wouldn't know a tool for GNU/Linux that can render them.

kstan when i using xine it show subtitle wrong ( .. .. ..... ... .) how i modfide to show arabic subtitle.
unSpawn i used vlc but same error .
thanks

What's the format the subtitles are in?

srt and sub

I'm sure it's something trivial. Could you post a download location for the files?

I have this problem with greek subtitles also, I get weird characters. With previous versions of my Suse it worked perfectly with suse10.1 this problem aroused.

greek subtitles
 

I managed to preview greek subtitles (.srt files) by using the vlc player (www.videolan.org). Follow the steps below:
1.Go: Settings --> Preferences
2.Go: Video --> Subtitles/OSD
3.In the <Use subtitle file> field browse your subtitle file.
4.Go: Video --> Subtitles/OSD--> Text renderer
5.In the <font> field click <browse...> and choose a font file (ending with .ttf). The font files are usually in this directory: /usr/share/fonts/
6.Go: Input/Codecs --> Other codecs --> Subtitles
7.In the <subtitles text encoding> field choose the ISO-8859-7 option

For Arabic subtitles I think that you have to follow the same steps but in the 7th step choose the ISO-8859-6 option.