The VideoLAN Forums

First off, let me go ahead and apologize for my lack of computer knowledge. I'm just trying to help my parents out so they can watch their movies, but I also don't know much about coding, etc.

I am trying to get my subtitles to work. They are Korean subtitles(SMI file), and every time I try to get them to work, I see either some sort of gibberish or just boxes. I have the latest version of VLC player (1.1.11).
When I try to play the video and subtitle file in Windows Media Player, it works fine, so i'm not quite sure why they are not working.

Thank you!

In the Preferences -> Subtitles you need to find out the correct code page in Default Encoding drop list.

Is your VLC interface in Korean or in English or what? Do you have a sample subtitle file for download somewhere?