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VLC for android not showing Chinese external subtitles
Posted: 28 Mar 2015 16:19
by ooscrewyou
VLC can't display Chinese subtitles(UTF-16, GB18030) although I've chosen the correct subtitle encoding. I tried converting the subtitles to UTF-8 using iconv but got no luck.
VLC version is VLC-Android-1.2.0-20150327-0104-ARMv7.
Re: VLC for android not showing Chinese external subtitles
Posted: 29 Mar 2015 16:54
by Jean-Baptiste Kempf
What does it show?
Re: VLC for android not showing Chinese external subtitles
Posted: 29 Mar 2015 19:21
by ooscrewyou
It shows nothing for Chinese in most cases. If the Chinese subtitle contain English or numbers, they can be displayed. When I select a GB18030 subtitle, if I set subtitle encoding to UTF-8, VLC shows ???? for every line, if I set encoding correctly(GB18030), it show nothing again.
Re: VLC for android not showing Chinese external subtitles
Posted: 29 Mar 2015 22:09
by Jean-Baptiste Kempf
OK. It must not find the right font.
Re: VLC for android not showing Chinese external subtitles
Posted: 30 Mar 2015 06:05
by ooscrewyou
I tried setting font to Droid Sans Fallback in an ASS file(I have the font in my device) but VLC still couldn't display the subtitles. I can't specify font for SRT file, it probably depends on media player, but VLC for android doesn't seem to allow users to set font like VLC for PC.
Re: VLC for android not showing Chinese external subtitles
Posted: 31 Mar 2015 15:36
by Lalaiandro
Yes i have many sample by bugtracker, with chinese subtitle!! VLC android can not showing!!!