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authordiego <diego@b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2>2005-10-17 22:23:37 +0000
committerdiego <diego@b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2>2005-10-17 22:23:37 +0000
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Add a note and a workaround about broken hardware players and how they
choke on Unix line endings in SRT subtitle files. git-svn-id: svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk@16791 b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2
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diff --git a/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1 b/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1
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@@ -1467,6 +1467,13 @@ Creates a dumpsub.smi file in the current directory.
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)