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fribidi2 in action
First item off my list of things to do , was adding arabic shaping and joining to fribidi. That way anything that uses fribidi will get fixed without need for patching.
First time I log on after I finish my exams I find the idea is already implemented! I checked out the cvs and rolled a quick ebuild and then tried to build mplayer against it but no show.
I tried vlc and it compiled just fine and arabic was fixed :)
I will look into mplayer later. I dunno if this will deprecate the mplayer patch, because not all distros are as flexible as gentoo, allowing users to install half-baked cvs checkouts.
VLC is just pure amazing in its interface and cleanliness. I am not sure it can match mplayer in the amount of playable codecs but it sure is a lot friendlier and usable. The downside being it depends on wxGTK2.
Anyway this is one of many things I am trying out for the upcoming version of phaeronix.
Screenshot of VLC rendering subtitles with fribidi2 :
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weird error
the bootstrap script uses /bin/sh as shell... how come you don't have that ?
What linux distro are you using ? what shell are you running ( echo $0 )
?
mplayer versus mplayer
you said you are not sure vlc can match mplayer in the amount of
playable codecs , but iam sure of this since I and my friends used
vlc in windows before , and actually I didn't find any movie that
vlc can't play " without any other codecs " and if amovie failed to
play fine with any other player because of lack of codecs , the
solution was vlc , but the only problem was " arabic subtitle "
M$ != linux
I assume VLC in windows can use those hacked up codec packs that install lots of adware/malware. In linux I have more than once bumped into stuff that mplayer could play and VLC couldn't.
I wanna mention that MPlayer
I wanna mention that MPlayer also works without patching, whithout even recompiling it
all what I did is installing fribidi2 and I got the Arabic subtitles in the correct way
Are you sure ?
Are you sure your mplayer is not patched with the other patch available on this website?
I am sure that mplayer won't compile with the development version of fribidi, but I don't know about binary compatibility, and I don't have time to test it now.
I promise to look into compiling mplayer with fribidi2... soon.
yeah, I'm sure about that,
yeah, I'm sure about that, but compiling with fribidi2 failed as u said
easy fix
I posted about an easy fix on eglug but forget to mention it here:
http://www.eglug.org/node/1767#comment-17243
If you want to compile mplayer againts fribidi2 and you get errors about "FRIBIDI_TRUE" and "FRIBDI_FALSE" being undefined, just edit the corresponding file and replace those occurences with 1 and 0 respectively.
Instructions
Step 1 checkout sources:
cvs -d:pserver:anoncvs@cvs.freedesktop.org:/cvs/fribidi co fribidi2
Step 2 :
./bootstrap ; ./configure ; make ; make install
( use prefix as option because it will replace your system stable one. )
Step 3 :
Make fribidi-config wrapper because it now uses pkg-config. You can use the one from the stable version or the following trivial script:
{{{
nano /usr/bin/fribidi-config
------------------------------
#!/bin/sh
pkg-config fribidi $@
------------------------------
chmod +x /usr/bin/fribidi-config
}}}
now build whatever program depends on fribidi and cross your fingers. the API has changed but not too much. Look here for guidance :
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/fribidi/2005-November/000450.html
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/fribidi/2005-September/000439.html
There you go.
Please help on fribidi2 build
Hi Pharon,
Please help.
I am trying to build fribidi2 from the checked out cvs codebase "cvs -d:pserver:anoncvs@cvs.freedesktop.org:/cvs/fribidi co fribidi2" but getting the build error " ./bootstrap:bad interpreter: nosuch file or directory". I was able to build fribidi code successfully but not fribidi2 :-(
How can I fix this? Do you have a pre-built fribidi2 available as a tar?
Thanks,
Praveen
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