Greek subtitles

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Greek subtitles

Postby eloitalia » 23 Dec 2008 17:52

Hi everybody !!
I like to use VLC media player for some movies when i need to put subtitles on. With german and english subtitles i have no problem but my boyfriend is greek and for the greek subtitles when i put them, vlc show them strange, he didn't show the greek caracters, is there something to do to change it ?

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Re: Greek subtitles

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 24 Dec 2008 19:45

You might need to force the subtitle format and encoding to read those correctly.
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Re: Greek subtitles

Postby eloitalia » 25 Dec 2008 13:35

You might need to force the subtitle format and encoding to read those correctly.
Can you perhaps explain me how to do it ?

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Re: Greek subtitles

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 26 Dec 2008 16:36

Use advanced open or use the preferences=>OSD section to do so.
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