I have tried the above steps…but still no luck with the subtitles…. Then it maybe an issue with your file encoding. I have tested this both on tiger and leopard and it works like a charm. Anyway if you open your file can you view the content with the correct encoding? For doxaras…… thank you for your reply re greek subs…. Then I googled your note and I am a very very happy person now. Thanks again. Where do u type 88? Cant find it Which version of VLC are we talking about again?? A lot of times, displays squares for i with tonos and for final s.
How do you guys fix that?. I use Snow Leo. It shows cubes. What do you mean QT 7? QT 7 is Quicktime 7, and Perian is a set of codecs that help Quicktime play all different sorts of formats, you can download it for free.
Reblogged this on tsiubiu. It seems like some of the text in your content are running off the screen. Can somebody else please provide feedback and let me know if this is happening to them too? Hello my friend! I want to say that this article is awesome, great written and include approximately all important infos. I would like to look more posts like this.
It seems to be really cool and I enjoyed reading it, thanks for the great article! Thanks a lot ,Christie. Now make sure the font is set to Arial Unicode MS , other unicode fonts should also work.
If Arial Unicode MS is not in the list, you can download and install it from here. You might need to restart VLC after changing these font settings. VLC is now using a unicode font that can display all Chinese, Korean and Japanese characters correctly. If you are sure your subtitles are encoded in UTF-8 , and you are using a unicode font in VLC, but your subtitles still don't work, then the subtitles are most probably broken. Now my adventure is to solve the issue and go to bed, movie will be for another time : — Shimmy Weitzhandler.
Then change the character encoding to the above setting and try again. OK meanwhile I'm using Media Player classic which displays the subs excellently!
Show 2 more comments. The below solution Worked on a Mac. Open the. You should see now the text in greek in the text editor application window. Save the file as plain text. Rename the. Just make sure that the whole name of your new. That's it, now it should work and display properly the Greek subtitles. Manos Manos 51 1 1 silver badge 1 1 bronze badge. Denja Denja 1 1 gold badge 5 5 silver badges 20 20 bronze badges. The Overflow Blog. Stack Gives Back I have some movies and their external greek subtitles in.
I have in my pc Windows Vista Ultimate Greek and when I open the avi file the Greek fonts of the greek subtitles are unreadable.
I use the VLC media player. I also opened the. What can I do to fix this problem? What do I have to change so that I can see the correct greek fonts while playing the avi file? Moving you to our subtitle section. You're not going to like what you have to do to make this work. First you have to determine what format the subtitles are in.
Are they in Unicode or some Greek code page? I have no idea if it does or not. If you are lucky, the subtitles will now work. However, many of your programs may now display garbage characters when you try to use them as they are now trying to use Greek fonts for anything installed that is not in Unicode.
You may also check to see if various Greek packages are installed under "Advanced" get to it as I said above and install any that are missing. If you install all the Greek packages there is some chance that you may be able to read the subtitles without having to do what I talked about above. Geia sou Ioakim! The above post may be correct, but it seems unnecessary to change the way your operating system behaves for all programs and files, instead of changing the way that one file behaves A bit of history: Greek code pages were a complete mess up to 95, due to the fact that every brainiac invented a code page of his own and there was never an authority in Greece to say, guys, this is how we're gonna do it.
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