[SOLVED] Hebrew Subtitles problem with PS3

I have downloaded Hebrew subtitles and put in correctly in my movies folders. but when i play it , its not appears like the right language , it appears just in very strange "symbols " .
please help me what to do

[Illico]

Read http://www.serviio.org/index.php?option ... icle&id=33

Check that Subtitle character encoding field is the same than your subtitle file (with notepad++ editor)

Read http://www.serviio.org/index.php?option ... icle&id=33

Check that Subtitle character encoding field is the same than your subtitle file (with notepad++ editor)

do you mean : the place where it says preferred language ? is that so ?

is that so ?

[Illico]

When you open your subtitle file with Notepad++ tool (advanced text editor), does "Hebrew " with special character are well displayed (by default file should be encoded in UTF-8 )?

Whats happen when you change the character set in notepad++ (something like Windows-1255) ?

If you want to see special character, you probably have to change to Windows-1255 on notepad++ then save your file, and change the UTF-8 value to cp1255 on serviio console.
--> make a backup of your original subtitle file <--

ok , and how do i change the notepad ++ file to windows -1255 ? what is that mean?

[Illico]

ok , and how do i change the notepadd ++ file to windows -1255 ? what is that mean?

- Open your file with notepad++ (make a backup before)
- Select Encoding menu : post here the value of the original file, should be encode in UTF-8
- Select Encoding menu -> Character set --> Hebrew --> Windows-1255
- Then save your file, the character encoding should be modified.

EDIT : For your information about character encoding : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character_encoding
For Hebrew : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows-1255

[Illico]

I see you use PS3 device, but I don't remember if serviio delivered the subtitle srt file in native format or if it burned srt in video stream...

ok , and how do i change the notepadd ++ file to windows -1255 ? what is that mean?

- Open your file with notepad++ (make a backup before)
- Select Encoding menu : post here the value of the original file, should be encode in UTF-8
- Select Encoding menu -> Character set --> Hebrew --> Windows-1255
- Then save your file, the character encoding should be modified.

EDIT : For your information about character encoding : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character_encoding
For Hebrew : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows-1255

its says the file is ANSI encoding

ITS WORKING !!!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE YOU MY MAN ! ITS WORKING!! So now i need to do this to all my files? edit it with notepad ++?

[Illico]

ITS WORKING !!!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE YOU MY MAN ! ITS WORKING!! So now i need to do this to all my files? edit it with notepad ++?

Just to be sure...
Could you retry with another file but before, disable all box on serviio console subtitle tab and retry ?

ITS WORKING !!!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE YOU MY MAN ! ITS WORKING!! So now i need to do this to all my files? edit it with notepad ++?

Just to be sure...
Could you retry with another file but before, disable all box on serviio console subtitle tab and retry ?

disable all box ?

[Illico]

disable all box ?

Yes, on serviio console could you uncheck all box and press save button.


I suspect that for PS3 the srt file was delivered in native format but with a wrong character set, (should be cp1255 for Hebrew, not UTF-8), so nothing about serviio setting.
So to confirm, I would like to try with all subtitles disabled on serviio console. And retry with another movie file (with another srt file).

[zip]

For PS3 you need burned in subs.

[Illico]

For PS3 you need burned in subs.

So the user should edit the subtitle file and change to Windows-1255 character encoding and change value in serviio console with cp1255.

[zip]

Yes, they will need to have all their files in the same encoding, either utf-8 or cpxxxx, and use that value in the console.

Note the encoding option is only for hardsubs, external subtitles are delivered as they are.