[subtitles] A-110 Chinese subtitles

[attehccuz]

Hello everybody,

I have som issues using the chinese subtitles on my PCH A110. I've read that the a110 supports the big5 subs (and maybe more) and everytime I tried to load them on a movie I just had strange caracters like $&ù etc etc.

Is there any way to read them alright? Or do I have to make a conversion before?

Thanks,

[MickH]

I use chinese subtitles but I always have to convert them to UTF-8. The way I do it as follows.

1) Open them in word which will automatically ask you to convert them and will display them properly.
2) Copy the whole file
3) Paste into a notepad document
4) Save as.....select Encoding=UTF-8
5) Save as moviename.srt

There may be an easier way but this works for me.

[hitchahike]

You have to set the encoding in subtitles to accept utf-8 (or big 5 or other chinese encoding depends on how the subtitles are encoded).

You can also remux the movie with subtitles to be encode with utf-8.

(08-25-2011 12:54 PM)attehccuz Wrote:  Hello everybody,

I have som issues using the chinese subtitles on my PCH A110. I've read that the a110 supports the big5 subs (and maybe more) and everytime I tried to load them on a movie I just had strange caracters like $&ù etc etc.

Is there any way to read them alright? Or do I have to make a conversion before?

Thanks,

[attehccuz]

ok so here is what I did:

Here is what the sub looks like when I open it with notepad:

Quote:1
00:01:17,900 --> 00:01:18,877
¿ªÊ¼Ðж¯,

3
00:01:33,750 --> 00:01:36,787
ħ¹íÆõÔ¼

4
00:03:26,070 --> 00:03:28,106
ÄãÊÇÐÂÀ´µÄDavis?

5
00:03:28,310 --> 00:03:31,507
²», Îҿɲ»ÕâôÈÏΪ, ÎÒÊÇÀ´°ïÄãÃÇͨ·µÄ.

I open it with Word, choose the chinese big5 encoding, and get this that I put on a notepad with UTF-8 subtitle:

Quote:嚜?
00:01:17,900 --> 00:01:18,877
聶穠?翹??繞簪,

3
00:01:33,750 --> 00:01:36,787
?禮繒穩?繭?翹

4
00:03:26,070 --> 00:03:28,106
?瓊?????織繕?Davis?

5
00:03:28,310 --> 00:03:31,507
簡罈, ??聶?簡罈?璽?織???穠, ?????織簞簿?瓊???穡?繚繕?.

Now on my PCH I can see the chinese ideograms perfect but why do I got so many "?"

[MickH]

I guess the quesitn is why do you have som many ? in notepad. Whatever shows up in notepad will show up on the PCH.
It seems like your file is still not correct but I have never had this problem so I dont have a godd suggestion.
Can you send me the link to the subtitle file and maybe I can try?

[attehccuz]

Hi,

I will first try the same procedure with other subtitles and see if the sub is wrong or not. If I still got my problem I will send it to you

thanks