From 0390d8781162953bf7ea1e5e8b752414a9d13164 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: diego <diego@b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2>
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 22:23:37 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] 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
---
 DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1 | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1 b/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1
index b8326dcfa9..6fc863c403 100644
--- a/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1
+++ b/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1
@@ -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)