Mac OS X subtitle settings ignored

Hi all!

I am having Mac OS X Mavericks (v.10.9.4) and using Serviio v.1.4.1.2

My problem is that the MediaBrowser does not play my greek subtitles which are on a *.srt format.

I have read several posts here regarding changing format etc. but my problem is different. I will try to describe it in a few words.

First of all no matter what I put at the "Subtitle character encoding" box the result is always the same. I had issues in the past
and to my experience when you change the encoding even if the subtitles are still not readable they are shown with the changed encoding.
This is not happening here! No matter what type of encoding I choose it always shows the subtitles with the same encoding as if my input was ignored.

I 've tried to change it and restart the server but the results were always the same.

In order to verify that my inputs were actually parsed (or ignored) I disabled the "Enable subtitles" and magically the subtitles were still shown (of course with the wrong encoding).

Restarted the server...still the same result!

Can someone actually verify that the changes in either "enable subtitles" or "encoding" are accepted by the server? What is the proper order that should be followed to make it happen??

Is this a bug??

Regards,

G.

[zip]

The subtitles encoding is the encoding of the source file. It's used when hardsubs are used (ie when the subtitles are being burned into the video stream) as well as when converting non-srt subs to srt (the format Serviio uses to deliver soft subs).

If the file is already SRT, the file is served as-is. So when MediaBrowser retrieves it, it's using the file inchanged (and characted encoding setting is ignored). I'm not sure if Flowplayer supports Greek characters, but if it did, I assume the file would have to be UTF8 encoded.

Thx zip for the very enlightening info.

These explains pretty much everything and why the settings there are ignored.

Regards

Ohhh...I forgot to ask...

Is there a way to change the FlowPlayer settings used by Serviio ???

I think that FlowPlayer is hard-coded is it true??

If it is can I somehow change from the hard-coded version to another one that I can install and tune on my computer?

All the best

[zip]

No you cannot really, unless you unzip mediabrowser.jar and replace the file there

OK!

If I do that am I violating any sort of usage aggreement??

Anyway, I think that I have found a solution to change recursively the encoding of all my *.srt files in my Mac using iconv.

I just want to verify that it works on all devices ....

[zip]

You can decode for your own use