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I have a problem with some Romanian subtitles. VLC only displays subtitle lines that don't contain special characters. I opened the "Messages" dialog and I noticed that this message appears every time a subtitle line is skipped: subsdec error: failed to convert subtitle encoding. Try manua...

I'm sorry if this isn't the right board to post in, but I didn't find any other board that could cover this problem. I'm using VLC 0.8.5. I have a problem in using SUB/IDX files with MKV video files. When I open the video file, along with the subtitle file, I get this error: Unrecognized format for ...