srt to IDX/SUB (Arabic subtitles on XBOX)

[fatso485]

hello all

i use XBMC to watch movies on my XBOX. the problem with XBMC is that it does not support arabic text properly.

i want to convert the arabic text (SRT) subtitle to images (IDX/sub) in order to make xbox recognise the arabic subtitle. whats the fastest and easiest way of doing that


thanks

[kitsaros2000]

try using txt2vobsub
http://www.trustfm.net/divx/SoftwareTxt2Vobsub.html

[fatso485]

i already did but your software does not seem to work on my machine for some odd reason. when i add the subtitle and select generate vobsub. it gives me an error that read "Tprogress bar out of range" and it does not do anything. if i try again it gives me the error "temp txt2vobsob already exists"

[fatso485]

could you try to donload any arabic subtitle from www.subscene.com and do the test on that file

[fatso485]

anyone?

[Liisachan]

in my test, Arabic SRT->IDX/SUB is basically possible,
the letter order is OK (right to left), but the word order is foobared.

(1) Convert SRT to Unicode SSA (UTF-16); this is easy.

Example:
http://ffdshow.faireal.net/tmp/ara/ssa.png

(2) MaestroSBT 2.6.0.0 Unicode can convert this SSA to SON+SPF+BMPs... but the word order is foobared :(

http://ffdshow.faireal.net/tmp/ara/maestro.png

(3) Son2VobSub can convert the above to IDX/SUB.


If (2) worked ok, this conversion would be decent.
You might want to file a bug report at SourceForge (http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=147340&atid=768093)
or here:
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=99438