HOWTO Solve the disappearing subtitles with 0.8.5

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

If sometimes the subtitles disappears with VLC 0.8.5 under Windows, with non-english subtitles:

* When you open the movie, you can choose the subtitle file.
Next to it, there is a Advanced Settings. When you click it, you can change the encoding according to the ISO codes:

ISO Standard for various characters sets
ISO-8859-1 works well for most western European countries and this should resolve your issue.


If you want to set it for all your movies :

Go to Preferences, Input/Codecs, Other codecs, Subtitles. From the Subtitles text encoding pull down select your character set. Then press Save and close the player.


By the way, if someone could confirms/infirms that this still happens with nightlies builds, this would be awesome !

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

More details on which character set to pick:

• Anglo-saxon languages: CP1252
  Latin languages: CP1252
  Finno-Hungric languages: CP1252
  Slavic languages: CP1250
  Cyrillic (Russian...): CP1251
  Arabic: CP1256
  Greek: CP1253
  Hebrew: CP1255
  Turkish: CP1254
  Baltic (Latvian, Lithuanian): CP1257 (/!\ Finnish and Estonian use CP1252)
  Urkrainian: KOI8-U (/!\ Russian uses CP1251)
  Tajik: KOI8-T (/!\ Russian uses CP1251)
  Japanese: Shift-JIS
  Korean: EUC-KR
  Thai: TIS-620
  Chinese: GB2312 or GB18030 for PRC, Big5 for Taiwan

I know I'm missing some, but I'm not so sure about them.
DISCLAIMER: it might not always work. Unfortunately, most subtitle files fail to specify the charset they use, and VLC cannot always guess right.