Ubuntu
smplayer package

Hebrew subtitles are encoded ISO-8859-8

Bug #1051552 reported by Shahar Or
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SMPlayer
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Totem
Invalid
Medium
VLC media player
Fix Released
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VLC media player 2.0.4
smplayer (Ubuntu)
New
Undecided
Unassigned
Precise
Won't Fix
Undecided
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totem (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Undecided
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Precise
Won't Fix
Undecided
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vlc (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
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Precise
Fix Released
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Bug Description

Dear friends,

Hebrew subtitles, as they are commonly found online, are mostly encoded ISO-8859-8. Or perhaps it is Windows-1255 or ISO-8859-8-I? I'm a bit confused about that.

Most, if not all video players expect and decode them as UTF-8.

The ideal way for this to work is to somehow detect the correct encoding. But how would that be done? One method would be to look by the name of the file.

How can this be solved?

Thanks,
Shahar

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: totem 3.4.3-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-14.18-generic 3.5.3
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-14-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.5.1-0ubuntu7
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Sep 16 14:53:58 2012
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta i386 (20120421)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: totem
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-07-12 (65 days ago)

See original description

CVE References

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Shahar Or (mightyiam) wrote :
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Shahar Or (mightyiam) wrote :
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in totem:
importance: Unknown → Medium
status: Unknown → New
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Rémi Denis-Courmont (rdenis) wrote :

VLC 2.0.4 will fallback to Windows-1255 (rather than Windows-1252 so far) for non-UTF-8 subtitles, if the language is Hebrew.

Changed in vlc:
milestone: none → 2.0.4
Changed in vlc (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Committed
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in totem:
status: New → Invalid
Shahar Or (mightyiam)
description: updated
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package vlc - 2.0.4-0ubuntu1

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vlc (2.0.4-0ubuntu1) quantal; urgency=low

  * New upstream release (LP: #1067064).
    - Fix crashes (LP: #947156, #958462, #960020, #979490, #1033682)
    - Correct default encoding for Hebrew subtitles (LP: #1051552)
  * Drop backported bp-fix-hang-caused-by-notify.patch.
  * Build the sftp access and Opus codec plugin and add them to vlc-nox.
 -- Benjamin Drung <email address hidden> Mon, 15 Oct 2012 22:28:55 +0200

Changed in vlc (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in vlc:
status: Unknown → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Adam Conrad (adconrad) wrote : Please test proposed package

Hello Shahar, or anyone else affected,

Accepted vlc into precise-proposed. The package will build now and be available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vlc/2.0.4-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please change the bug tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not, change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

Changed in vlc (Ubuntu Precise):
status: New → Fix Committed
tags: added: verification-needed
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package vlc - 2.0.5-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

---------------
vlc (2.0.5-0ubuntu0.12.04.1) precise-security; urgency=low

  * New bug-fixing upstream release.
    - Fix hang caused by the notify plugin. (Closes: #662628, LP: #970447)
    - Fix crashes (LP: #947156, #958462, #960020, #979490, #1033682)
    - Correct default encoding for Hebrew subtitles (LP: #1051552)
  * SECURITY UPDATE: denial of service via crafted PNG file (LP: #1084054)
    - CVE-2012-5470
  * SECURITY UPDATE: Buffer overflows in freetype renderer and HTML subtitle
    parser can cause a denial of service (process termination) and possibly
    execute arbitrary code.
    - VideoLAN-SA-1301
 -- Benjamin Drung <email address hidden> Sat, 05 Jan 2013 14:47:33 +0100

Changed in vlc (Ubuntu Precise):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Walter Garcia-Fontes (walter-garcia) wrote :

Setting the Totem bug in Ubuntu to invalid as it has been responded upstream as a configuration problem. Please feel free to change if this is not correct.

Changed in totem (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
Revision history for this message
Mathew Hodson (mhodson) wrote :

The package vlc in -proposed was released, so removing the verification-needed tag.

tags: removed: verification-needed
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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote :

The Precise Pangolin has reached end of life, so this bug will not be fixed for that release

Changed in smplayer (Ubuntu Precise):
status: New → Won't Fix
Changed in totem (Ubuntu Precise):
status: New → Won't Fix
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