Vlc wont open greek subtitles

[nasta]

Its impossible for me to open an .srt file with greek subtitles on VLC v.1.1.11. I have tried changing the default encoding and then restart the program and nothing happens. Can you please help me? Its really annoying.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

What do you see?

[nasta]

What do you mean?It does not show at all the subtitles.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Look at the logs in the message dialog...

[nasta]

where can i see the message dialog?and what is a log?

[VLC_help]

Open Tools -> Messages (set Verbosity to 2) before you start the playback. The messages will be printed to that dialog.

[anttilogeas]

I downloaded the vlc 1.1.11 version and when i add greek subtitles it doesn't shows them right...It shows something like strange symbols but not greek subtitles...Please somebody help me!

[VLC_help]

More details, please. (like subtitle format, text encoding settings etc.)

[anttilogeas]

my default encoding is in default windows 1252 and it has no Greek encoding i can not give you more details because i do not know where and what to look for

[VLC_help]

Can you share the subtitle file to us?

[anttilogeas]

yes ofcourse how can i do that please?

[clearstreamer]

my default encoding is in default windows 1252 and it has no Greek encoding i can not give you more details because i do not know where and what to look for

It has no greek encoding? Open VLC, go to Menu/Tools/Preferences. At the bottom select Show settings/simple and go to Subtitles & OSD. Right next to "Default encoding" you should change that to "Greek (Windows-1253)", then press Save and restart VLC. As for uploading a file (the subtitles), you can use any upload service like Mediafire or Rapidshare... google them.

[anttilogeas]

my version it has no windows-1253

[anttilogeas]

what can i do?? is there anybody who knows?? TO VLC HELP you can download from google greek subtitles from any movie and see what's happening...please i can't see any movie at all...

[clearstreamer]

what can i do?? is there anybody who knows?? TO VLC HELP you can download from google greek subtitles from any movie and see what's happening...please i can't see any movie at all...

Are you sure this is exactly what you do and that there is no Greek-Windows 1253 option? Please check the picture. Do you press the arrow in the right to see the complete list? If you still can't find it, uninstall VLC, redownload the latest version and install again, checking 'Delete preferences and cache' option.

[anttilogeas]

yeah i am sure can you please send me a link with this version that has the greek-windows 1253 because i already have uninstalled it and reinstalled it but nothing changed

[clearstreamer]

It's not a special version, it's the standard VLC v.1.1.11 Windows download and I would assume the same encoding options are available to all, regardless of Windows' language. Get it here. Remember to select "Delete preferences and cache".

[anttilogeas]

i just did it exactly as you said and again there is no greek-windows 1253 on the default encoding

[clearstreamer]

I can't think of anything else then. It'd be interesting though if you uploaded a screenshot.

[anttilogeas]

how can i do that?

[clearstreamer]

Go to the VLC Prefs at the same screen as I did. Press the "print screen" button on your keyboard. Open Window Paint (or similar program) and paste. You will see the entire screen capture pasted. Crop it if necessary, save the picture, upload it to mediafire.com and give us the link.

[VLC_help]

upload it to mediafire.com

Or use imgur http://imgur.com/ for the screenshot.

[anttilogeas]

http://imgur.com/NjZUZ here it is...if you can do anything i would be grateful

[clearstreamer]

http://imgur.com/NjZUZ here it is...if you can do anything i would be grateful

Have you scrolled that list down...?

[anttilogeas]

what do you mean if i have checked every default encoding that is being included yes ia have done it