Subtitles problems on 0.84 Mac

[u-lounge]

Just for info,

0.84 seems dealing worse with subtitles than the previous version.
I'm talking about when you got avi + srt ...

2 differents macs, 2 different versions of VLC, same video and subtitles files... on 0.84 get rides of some subtitles... on the previous one, everything's ok...

[nicolasb]

I've got the same problems !

If I watch an AVI+srt, in the new 0.84 version, most of the subtitles are missing

[Ashburngil]

Same problem here!!
Any solution yet???
I think i'm going back to the old version.....

[The DJ]

VLC treats the subs as UTF-8 now unless you tell it otherwise. Please select the proper charset in the subtitles dialog when you open a file.

[chaise]

VLC treats the subs as UTF-8 now unless you tell it otherwise. Please select the proper charset in the subtitles dialog when you open a file.

'hope this is a temporary solution...

VLC just skips every line with special accents.
ISO-8859-1 does not mean "Windows" for everyone.
Unfortunatly, almost every srt files are for a Windows charset. Quite annoying to select the proper charset every time for a Mac user.

Thank you very much for your software, by the way !

[essage]

You can set the default encoding in the preferences.

Input/Codecs / Other codecs / Subtitles / Subtitles text encoding

[chaise]

You can set the default encoding in the preferences.

Input/Codecs / Other codecs / Subtitles / Subtitles text encoding

Thanks a lot.

[urielsky]

i also am using vers. .8.4 and i have many troubles trying to get a japanese subrip file to work. what is the correct subtitles encoding to use? i've tried many so far, some produce a jumbled mess, no luck

[codeman38]

i also am using vers. .8.4 and i have many troubles trying to get a japanese subrip file to work. what is the correct subtitles encoding to use? i've tried many so far, some produce a jumbled mess, no luck

Most likely it's Shift_JIS, which is the default encoding on both Windows and Mac for Japanese.

[urielsky]

thanks, i try shift_jis but i only get rows of blocks. EUC-jp, jp-1 and jp-2 give me nothing, except for the authors name that does appear at the beginning of the movie in roman script. i've tried a few movies and several different japanese .srt files with the same result. any other ideas would be great! tx

[Guest]

Same problem here!!, with spanish sub, in my MAC.
Wich is the proper charset for Spanish subtitles??
Help please!!

[emeka01]

for my it works fine with ISO-8859-1, then go to Preferencias / Input/Codecs / Other codecs / Subtitulos / Codificacion de texto de subtitulos = ISO-8859-1

[The DJ]

thanks, i try shift_jis but i only get rows of blocks. EUC-jp, jp-1 and jp-2 give me nothing, except for the authors name that does appear at the beginning of the movie in roman script. i've tried a few movies and several different japanese .srt files with the same result. any other ideas would be great! tx

You also need to tell VLC to use a font that supports Japanese. (Unfortunatly there is not a single font on the mac that supports ALL unicode characters. Very Uni that unicode isn't it??)

[The DJ]

VLC treats the subs as UTF-8 now unless you tell it otherwise. Please select the proper charset in the subtitles dialog when you open a file.

'hope this is a temporary solution...

VLC just skips every line with special accents.
ISO-8859-1 does not mean "Windows" for everyone.
Unfortunatly, almost every srt files are for a Windows charset. Quite annoying to select the proper charset every time for a Mac user.

Thank you very much for your software, by the way !

charsets have nothing to do with windows vs. mac
it tells the system what kind of characters to use to display information in a textfile. Unfortunatly most subtitle systems do not include the charset information by themselves (idiotic of course), so you need to tell VLC which charset it is encoded in.