Some random ramblings...

When using mplayer, press 'o'... for the... "Oh sh*t Dis!" haha.

Also watched The Dark Knight Rises.  Wow.  Good movie.  Didn't think Chris would come back for a third one because although I didn't like The Dark Knight as much, I thought the ending was a perfect way to give the series to any director to continue as it establishes Batman's outlaw status.  Kudos to Nolan for coming back and delivering a much better movie.

Issue with Real Video

I bumped into an issue with real video and it was something like Could not open required DirectShow codec drvc.so, or something to that effect.  I didn't read all of it and went immediately to search online for the answer.  The solution to my problem was actually just chmodding it.  I should have paid more attention to the error output.

sudo chmod 755 /usr/lib/win32/*

sudo chmod 755 /usr/lib/codecs/*

Ha!

Subtitles Mayhem - Finally Solved!

God damn it! This has taken a long time to figure out! I was trying to get Chinese subtitles to work on mplayer and everytime I tried it, I get crazy garbage text. After installing truck load of language packs on Ubuntu, I am not successful. One guy suggested loading up specific a codepage for the subtitles but I had no clue what the encoding was for my srt subtitles.

After taking a couple of months break from it, I decided to start looking again and this time, I lucked out. Someone suggested to use smplayer instead for the subtitles and it only took a few clicks on the preferences to make it work. I changed the fonts on the preferences to use Code Page 936 Simplified Chinese for the subtitles. Voila! Subtitles are appearing there!

Unfortunately, I tried to use it on mplayer, I still get garbage text. Whatever. As long as I can read the subtitles, I'm fine.