hello guys

finally i have managed to get arabic subtitle to work simply by copying windows XP "arial unicode" instead of the player font, and at the same time i have to encode every arabic subtitle i'm using in UTF8

and here's the steps you should make to enable it in your players:

1-use "telenet" to connect to your player (type telnet in the run)
2-# root (to login)
3-# /bin/mount -o,remount,rw /
4-# mount
backup the original ARIALUNI.TTF font to another destination in the hard drive
5-# cp /usr/local/bin/Resource/ARIALUNI.TTF /tmp/hdd/volumes/HDD1/ARIALUNI.OLD
delete the original font from resource folder
6-# rm -rf /usr/local/bin/Resource/ARIALUNI.TTF
copy the windows "arial unicode" to player hard drive
7-in the run mode type player IP address ex.\\192.168.1.102 then paste the font inside hard drive root with name "ARIALUNI.TTF"
replace original font
8-# cp /tmp/hdd/volumes/HDD1/ARIALUNI.TTF /usr/local/bin/Resource/ARIALUNI.TTF
9-# reboot

now you have successfully replaced the original font, afterward you need to download the encoding application i'm attaching herein, and you'll need to encode every arabic subtitle by this application before placing in the same movie folder
1-install application
2-open application- file menu "batch conversion"
3-select subtitle file, press add
4-select encode from "arabic windows-1256" decode to "unicode UTF-8"
5-select output destination

copy the file resulted in the output destination to the movie folder and rename as "movie name.srt"

ENJOY

Thanks Similar,
This looks a good workaround till the do it officially,Cuz the fond will be replaced after the update and
you have to do same steps again and again.

Don't expect all the users can do this (but still better than idx/sub method).

but i can't confirm this method yat cuz i don't have my PlayonHD right now (i give it away to my cousin),
But if this method will work on PlayonHD mini i am going to order it.

So anyone can confirm this method on PlayonHD?

And Similar can you please paste pics to see how it's work



Thanks

Note: i hope from AC Ryan to recompile the latest update with this font and test it then release it for public.

Hi

i do have POHD not mini, but i think my workaround should be working for both

i'll include one of my encoded subtitles so that people can rename and check if they can read it properly in their players or not, pictures will follow shortly

regards

This no longer works with 3400 firmware.

this has nothing to do with the firmware version, the idea is about replacing the font and encoding (so it's independent from firmware)

I know that but when I tried to change font in 3400 it didn't work - I had no problems with previous firmwares. Before I reboot the player the font changes and all the menus and subtitles use the new font. But when I reboot, the player no longer starts but constantly reboots and I had to reinstall the firmware.

don't know what's the point that is causing your problem, try once more and tell me at which command it's not working

otherwise i'll tell you different solution, which is you can add your subtitle as a layer to the movie using a program called "MKVtoolnix" , it'll also allow you to add more than one subtitle to the same movie

try to use it with one of your movies and tell me the results

regards

Thank you for your quick response I already had to reinstall the firmware 2 times and I suppose for now I'll give up on this. But changing subtitles font is not of paramount importance for me right now, because the subtitles are still light grey and not white - see my posts here ->http://www.acryan.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=44&t=4482&start=200 and http://www.acryan.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=44&t=4993&start=140
So I convert all my subtitles to idx/sub with Txt2Vobsub in order to have readable white subtitles with 3 points black outline and bold type

Hi,
I manage to get back my PlayonHD to try your method,

first thing i did was upgrading to rev3400,But i stuck in step 6 (it can't delete the file cuz directory not empty).
I jumped to step 7 and again have another problem, can't connect to the player ip (all my firewalls turned off).

I downgrade to an official old update (i guess it's rev3259) and still having the same problem.


Any idea or a solution for this problem ?

Thanks

hi

don't know why you're receiving this problem, can you post the exact error msg you're receiving along with screen shot (press fn + prt scr) once you receive the msg

currently i'm using version 2901

also before trying to change the font try to use the arabic subtitle that i attached in the topic (rename to your movie.srt)