Inside Job 720p Subtitles Greek
Kenneth Calimlim
I'm using emby server Mac 3.2.33 with high sierra and I'm having problems with external greek srt subtitles (please see attached srt file) when using direct play. The subtitles are displayed as gibberish on the telly while the web player displays them correctly. The srt file is UTF-8. Any clues?
3.2.33.17 is a mixed bag for me. Although the server quits properly now and as others requested there is only a menubar icon, I still can not remote control my LG TV from the browser interface (direct cast) and greek subtitles still play up.
New version 3.2.34.0 for the macOS does not fix the greek subtitles and/or the problem with unicode characters. To me it looks like that both issues are related- the macOS server does not correctly detect that the character set in the .srt file is unicode and is sending it to the TV as ISO Latin 1.
I've also noticed that when the unicode srt (greek or English language) is muxed into the mkv container then my TV does not allow me to change the language code as it's greyed out (see attached photo IMG_0367) but when the same unicode srt file is external then my TV allows me to change the language code (see attached photo IMG_0368). Do you see the same?
If we remuxed on the fly then that would make sense because we will be stripping out all other subtitle tracks during that process. If it is direct playing to the TV, then I'm not sure, it just depends on what the TV supports.
I suppose what I was trying to say in my previous post is that when the subtitles file is correctly sent to the TV via direct-play as unicode then the TV software detects it's a unicode subtitles file and auto-disables the option to change the character encoding (which makes perfect sense).
Again, I'm not exactly sure what the issue is for older LG models. What I can say is that for newer models there is no issue. When I have an opportunity to personally test this out then I'll be able to figure it out. Thanks.
as my manual says, i've got to put the code 1142 in the subtitles setting in order to see the subtitles of my Divx in greek. But unfortunately, the subtitles are unreadable (cabalistic characters lol) and i don't know what is going on
By taking a look at the manual, I gather that this setting most probably affects only the playback of DVDs. Id est, it forces the player to automatically switch to a Greek audio and subtitle bitmap stream (where available) while playing a DVD-Video disc. Kind of like the following settings in Media Player Classic:
...which affect only DVD playback. Matters with subtitles in text formats (.srt, .sub etc. accompanying AVI/MPEG/whatever video files) are entirely different. Your DVD player must include a Greek bitmap font in its firmware, in order to be able to render Greek subtitles. Are you absolutely sure that this your specific Samsung model includes such support? If not, you should check the Samsung web site for availability of a recent firmware image for your player, offering said support. If no such firmware is available, your only hope lies with the DVD player firmware modding community, provided that your player uses a popular and tweakable chipset.
Furthermore, players expect a text subtitle file saved with a specific encoding. Ideally, this would be UTF-8 so all the languages of this world could be supported. Most often, you have to use either ISO-8859-7 or WINDOWS-1253 encoding in order to get proper Greek subtitle rendering.
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