[SOLVED] Greek Subtitles Sony Bravia Serviio 1.2

Hi to all,
I have just downloaded the new serviio version 1.2. I can now see subtitles on my Sony Bravia but there must be a problem with Greek language. I cannot read anything. The characters are unreadable. Can you please look into it and advise?


Thanks,

Andreas.

[Illico]

What is the subtitle format, srt;ass files or embedded one ?
Does the subtitle is encoded in UTF-8 (see with notepad++ for example) ?

Dear Illico,
the file is an srt file and it is encoded in Ansi (I opened it in Notepad++). I changed the encoding in UTF-8 and now its working.


Thanks,


Andreas.

Hello noob here I can see the subs but cant read them as the above user said. I my face an encoded problem but the point is I dont know how to change that, how to use UTF-8 to make them readable. I would greatly appreciate if you can help me.

Thank you in advance

[Illico]

Open your srt subtitle file with advanced text editor like Notepad++, change the encoding to UTF-8, then save the file.

hello, it still doesnt work on me.
lets take them from the beginning. I download a movie with its separate greek srt file from internet. In order to check subs, I play the movie with vlc player where I drop the srt file to check sync. I tested my last movie that it was playing fine with vlc with greek subs. After that, I run notepad++. From inprogram I pressed open and I choose the srt file I want to change encode. I went to toolbar to "encoding" and the bullet was in "Encode in ANSI". I then choose the below line says "encode in UTF-8". There is another option says "encode in UTF-8 without BOM". After choosing the encode I press save icon on notepad++ and I exit the program. I then add selected folder with movie and new encoding srt to Serviio console (Library->shared folders) and ticked the "share video file" and the "Retrieve descriptive metadata" boxes. I went to my tv (sony kdl55hx920) and I tried to play the movie but the subs were still in mess!. I opened the new srt file with notepad++ and I saw that the subs were unreadable also.
Don't know what to do next...

thank you

[Illico]

Don't know what to do next...

Don't know too...could you post your srt file here ?

Just uploaded the srt file. Just delete .doc from the file name I cant uploada file ending with.srt

Thank you.

[Illico]

I don't know how Greek subtitles should be displayed, but do you try with NotePad++ to change the character encoding to cp1253 (Windows 1253).
Then on serviio console subtitle tab set the character encoding shield with the same cp1253 value.

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