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It's up to you. Don't ask me.

For me personally the problem is solved with using gnome subtitles so all is ok! Thanks for the help though!

Do you have a copy of the failing .srt file?

Yes sure, I have it. Shall I post it somewhere?

(I suspect that this whole thing is a user mistake though)

You probably did not select the correct character encoding in the subtitles preferences. Ah, maybe that's the problem. I tried now to change into different character modes under "tools", "preferences", "Subtitles & OSD", "default encoding". Tried a few di...

Hello everyone! VLC is avery capable player but I have noticed severe problems when trying to use spanish subtitles. The written spanish contains "é" and "ñ" among others and instead of these letters I get "?". Maybe someone knows if this problem is known to the develeo...

You can't do proper machine translation for subtitles. You can ask that from any subtitle-scene group. Poor subtitles steal focus from actual video because they are real annoyance with bad grammar. And there are some limitations for double subtitle feature because of their specs. For example DVD su...

Trivial. Putting the subtitles/Closed Captions in two Windows windows would be trivial. The only other issue would be to find and purchase the rights to a cheap language translation engine for Spanish, Italian, French, German, Portuguese, for starters. Then Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Hindi, Russian...

Yes this feature would be so cool! I'm currently learning language and to be able to view two sets of subtitles at the same time would be fantastic! The reason is that being able to see for example spanish and english subtitles at the same time gives me good posibilities to learn sort of "word ...