changeset 16790:946dde5002dd

Add a note and a workaround about broken hardware players and how they choke on Unix line endings in SRT subtitle files.
author diego
date Mon, 17 Oct 2005 22:23:37 +0000
parents def7bbb898a3
children fe601b7b10c8
files DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1
diffstat 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1	Mon Oct 17 20:44:17 2005 +0000
+++ b/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1	Mon Oct 17 22:23:37 2005 +0000
@@ -1467,6 +1467,13 @@
 Convert the given subtitle (specified with the \-sub option) to the time-based
 SubViewer (SRT) subtitle format.
 Creates a dumpsub.srt file in the current directory.
+.br
+.I NOTE:
+Some broken hardware players choke on SRT subtitle files with Unix
+line endings.
+If you are unlucky enough to have such a box, pass your subtitle
+files through unix2dos or a similar program to replace Unix line
+endings with DOS/Windows line endings.
 .
 .TP
 .B \-dumpsub (MPlayer only) (BETA CODE)