[SUBTITLE] Special Charaters for External Subtitles Font

[Airal]

Can somebody please tell me if Romanian characters are supported at this time? I'm searching this forum (and Google) for two weeks now and I couldn't find an answer. Thanks

[chris57]

Think weve sorted this one unless any Romanain users have anything to add.

[FATHER]

Caracterele romanesti sunt recunoscute cu setarea Subtitle: Czech .

Popcorn Hour is becoming very popular in Romania so specific characters should be implemented. Please.

Hint. User Mtz from Softpedia Forum might give a helping hand.

[Mtz]

Ok, Mtz registered here.

chris57, is not only about romanian characters. I have experience with subtitles fonts since 2005 and I think the "Mtz fonts" (google it) are the most famous fonts for players which play external subtitles.
The subtitles fonts are clasified by the Language Code Page and many countries use the same language code page:

Code:

Windows Code Pages:
    CP1250:
        Bosnia/Herzogovina
        Croatia
        Czech
        Hungary
        Poland
        Romania
        Slovakia
        Slovenia
    CP1251:
        Bulgaria
        Macedonia FYR
        Russia
        Serbia/Montenegro
    CP1252:
        Albania
        Australia
        Austria
        Belgium - Flemish
        Belgium - French
        Brazil
        Canada - English
        Canada - French
        Catalan
        Denmark
        Finland
        France
        Germany
        Iceland
        Ireland
        Italy
        Latin America
        Netherlands
        New Zealand
        Norway
        Portugal
        South Africa
        Spain
        Sweden
        Switzerland - French
        Switzerland - German
        Switzerland - Italian
        United Kingdom
        United States
    CP1253:
        Greece
    CP1254:
        Turkey
    CP1255:
        Israel
    CP1256:
        Arabic Speaking
    CP1257:
        Estonia
        Latvia
        Lithuania
    CP1258:
        Vietnam

But for divx players we have some tools to modify some parts of the firmware including the fonts. Because most users are using external (or embeded subtitles in mkv) they need also a good font which contain some tricks.
Until we'll have some tools to make some unofficial firmwares people need to ask for the fonts.
And for better fonts you'll better ask for somebody with experience. The guys which made the firmares for divx players NEVER made the desired font for subtitles by the users (I hope this will not happen with this HD Players) and most of them used unofficial firmware first because of fonts.
If the sofware developers want some help, I am ready for this.

enjoy,
Mtz

PS: if you know some software developer for the MC players (syabas?)you can tell them about my post.

[Airal]

@chris57: Chris was kind enough to help me with a test for Romanian subs, if interested check here:

http://www.networkedmediatank.com/showth...p?tid=8150

[chris57]

I do remember you from my Yamada 6700 days, followed by my Peekton 6006, in fact I may still have one of your firmwares on my Phillips 5960. I will mention to the powers that be your kind offer of help MTZ.

You can edit the fonts used by the player to get them wokring now. It involves Telnet or extended gaya IIRC. Not for the 'average Joe' but possible to get what you want already without needing any 'unofficial firmware'.

For the rest of us that would like it in the usual way then start a thread and get your vote cast by adding a comment or simple +1 to the thread:-
http://www.networkedmediatank.com/forumd...php?fid=41

[Mtz]

Ok, I posted +1 in some older thread.
If you still have a firmware in some divx player player just look again and carefully (maybe you'll observe the tricks used in creating them) at the subtitle font (size, position, special characters) and maybe send a screenshot to the software developers.
I still not have any MC but I hope to have one soon: PH, HDX, iStar, I don't know.

enjoy,
Mtz

PS: I think the better name for the thread is "Special characters for external subtitles font"

[Airal]

(09-21-2008 11:47 AM)FATHER Wrote:  Caracterele romanesti sunt recunoscute cu setarea Subtitle: Czech .

Popcorn Hour is becoming very popular in Romania so specific characters should be implemented. Please.

Hint. User Mtz from Softpedia Forum might give a helping hand.

So if I got right, you can display the Romanian characters (including sh and tz?) by setting the subtitles to Czech. This is great news if you use external subs. There still is a problem with subtitles embedded in a mkv file which are marked as Romanian and I'm not sure if it will be displayed automatically (like in MPC when you set the preferred language). You can of course easily edit those subs with MKVtoolnix and save them as Czech.

Without being a specialist, I suppose it is not that difficult to associate Romanian language with Windows CP 1250 charset (which is already supported by PCH), are there any chances to see it implemented soon?

PS: I wouldn't mind if a Mod will change the name into "Special characters for external subtitles font" as suggested by MTZ

[Mtz]

OK, I got one PH A100 and one iStar and both can display special characters for romanian. The setting was Czech.
Also I recieved one Tvix and I read in some forum that is possible to install true type fonts .ttf from your PC.

enjoy,
Mtz

[chris57]

There was a post on this forum where it detailed how to change to fonts used by the PCH.
It involved extended gaya and telnet, the guy who got it wokring had arabic subtitles working very early on.

I had my subtitles set to 'english' not 'czech' when I tested the romanian .srt subtitle in the other thread.

edit
Found the thread here's how to have custom fonts:-
http://www.networkedmediatank.com/showth...light=.ttf

[bakkarm]

Dear moderator,

Thank you for the effort you have been doing. I am not sure wither it is the right place to write about this issue or not.

I have PCH-A110, and I have hundreds of western movies with external Arabic subtitle (*.srt). When I play them, I get garbage.
Right now, I heard that the C200 supports Arabic subtitle.

Are you going to update the firmware of the A110 to display such subtitles? Or I have to change to C200, which is unfair?

Thank you for your cooperation. I am looking forward to hearing from you soon.


Yours,


Majed