.srt wont play! problem fixed!

[dsob]

I was having issues with subtitles not working on the A-100. they were all .srt's, all properly named but some worked while others did not. I made sure they were in the same directory. I made sure they were named EXACTLY the same as the movie file, capitalization and all. I looked at the files in notepad, but couldn't see any problems. Compared them with working ones, still couldn't figure it out!!

I searched off and on for days (WEEKS!!) trying to figure it out.
Then I came across this thread:

http://www.networkedmediatank.com/showth...?tid=29027

Particularly this post by "Popcornia"

Quote:The problem was that the subtitle SRT file was Unicode encoded, and seemingly the Popcorn Hour cannot handle this, but rather only ASCII/ANSI encoded text!

Second, here is the procedure to "fix" (i.e. convert to non-Unicode) your Unicode subtitle files so that the Popcorn Hour can play them (this will of course only work fully if the subtitles don't really contain any non-ASCII characters to begin with):

In Notepad:
-----------
1. Open the SRT file in Notepad.
2. Select "Save as"
3. In the save dialog, set the type to "All files" (important), and select the SRT file that is currently open (i.e. same file name).
4. In the "Encoding" drop down, select "ANSI".
5. Press "Save", and you're done!

In Notepad++:
--------------
1. Open the SRT file in Notepad++.
2. From the "Format" menu, select "Convert to ANSI".
3. From the file menu, select "Save", and you're done!

I found out I could easily check the file by opening in notepad, selecting save as, and if the encoding box said unicode, bingo!

Now I didn't want to check each file so I searched for a unicode to ansi converter and came across this thread:

http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/topic/...onversion/

Quote:Micha1405
Advanced Member
Posted 11 December 2005 - 08:41 PM

Hello,
this little CMD File can convert all files you want. The sample is for registry files

@Echo Off
echo UniCode to ANSI converter for Registry files.
md ~ANSI
for %%a in (*.reg *.?reg?) do type "%%a">"~ANSI\%%a"
for %%a in (*.reg *.?reg?) do attrib -r -h -s "%%a"
cd ~ANSI
for %%a in (*.reg *.?reg?) do move /y "%%a" ..
cd..
rd ~ANSI

A quick tweak for .srt instead of .reg files:

Code:

@ECHO OFF
echo UniCode to ANSI converter for .SRT subtitle files.
md ~ANSI
for %%a in (*.srt *.?srt?) do type "%%a">"~ANSI\%%a"
for %%a in (*.srt *.?srt?) do attrib -r -h -s "%%a"
cd ~ANSI
for %%a in (*.srt *.?srt?) do move /y "%%a" ..
cd..
rd ~ANSI

saved in notepad as "subfix.cmd"

now I copied this cmd file in my movie directory, ran it (double click like any other shortcut/program) and poof! all my srt's were fixed!! (and smaller than their unicode counterparts as well!)

(btw, if doing over a lan, map the drive or it wont work)

I don't know how to make it do sub directories and such, but it's tiny so I just copied it to each directory with problematic srts, and ran it in each.. is quite quick as it's basically copying the srt to a new folder (using windows type command, wich sends ascii? output) and then copying it back over the original!

I now have it in my default download folder so when I download srt's I run subfix before moving them over to the movie folder(s).

Hope this can help someone else... Had I not found Popcornia's post, i'd probably still be searching for an answer...

[george7523]

For me I have loaded UTF8 encoded chinese Big5 .srt (external) or internal mkv with no problem. It does not have to be ANSI

[spinrek kestler]

Thankyou this worked a treat

[sharom36]

(03-03-2011 01:32 PM)dsob Wrote:  I was having issues with subtitles not working on the A-100. they were all .srt's, all properly named but some worked while others did not. I made sure they were in the same directory. I made sure they were named EXACTLY the same as the movie file, capitalization and all. I looked at the files in notepad, but couldn't see any problems. Compared them with working ones, still couldn't figure it out!!

I searched off and on for days (WEEKS!!) trying to figure it out.
Then I came across this thread:

http://www.networkedmediatank.com/showth...?tid=29027

Particularly this post by "Popcornia"

Quote:The problem was that the subtitle SRT file was Unicode encoded, and seemingly the Popcorn Hour cannot handle this, but rather only ASCII/ANSI encoded text!

Second, here is the procedure to "fix" (i.e. convert to non-Unicode) your Unicode subtitle files so that the Popcorn Hour can play them (this will of course only work fully if the subtitles don't really contain any non-ASCII characters to begin with):

In Notepad:
-----------
1. Open the SRT file in Notepad.
2. Select "Save as"
3. In the save dialog, set the type to "All files" (important), and select the SRT file that is currently open (i.e. same file name).
4. In the "Encoding" drop down, select "ANSI".
5. Press "Save", and you're done!

In Notepad++:
--------------
1. Open the SRT file in Notepad++.
2. From the "Format" menu, select "Convert to ANSI".
3. From the file menu, select "Save", and you're done!

I found out I could easily check the file by opening in notepad, selecting save as, and if the encoding box said unicode, bingo!

Now I didn't want to check each file so I searched for a unicode to ansi converter and came across this thread:

http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/topic/...onversion/

Quote:Micha1405
Advanced Member
Posted 11 December 2005 - 08:41 PM

Hello,
this little CMD File can convert all files you want. The sample is for registry files

@Echo Off
echo UniCode to ANSI converter for Registry files.
md ~ANSI
for %%a in (*.reg *.?reg?) do type "%%a">"~ANSI\%%a"
for %%a in (*.reg *.?reg?) do attrib -r -h -s "%%a"
cd ~ANSI
for %%a in (*.reg *.?reg?) do move /y "%%a" ..
cd..
rd ~ANSI

A quick tweak for .srt instead of .reg files:

Code:

@ECHO OFF
echo UniCode to ANSI converter for .SRT subtitle files.
md ~ANSI
for %%a in (*.srt *.?srt?) do type "%%a">"~ANSI\%%a"
for %%a in (*.srt *.?srt?) do attrib -r -h -s "%%a"
cd ~ANSI
for %%a in (*.srt *.?srt?) do move /y "%%a" ..
cd..
rd ~ANSI

saved in notepad as "subfix.cmd"

now I copied this cmd file in my movie directory, ran it (double click like any other shortcut/program) and poof! all my srt's were fixed!! (and smaller than their unicode counterparts as well!)

(btw, if doing over a lan, map the drive or it wont work)

I don't know how to make it do sub directories and such, but it's tiny so I just copied it to each directory with problematic srts, and ran it in each.. is quite quick as it's basically copying the srt to a new folder (using windows type command, wich sends ascii? output) and then copying it back over the original!

I now have it in my default download folder so when I download srt's I run subfix before moving them over to the movie folder(s).

Hope this can help someone else... Had I not found Popcornia's post, i'd probably still be searching for an answer...

Thank you thank you thank you!!!!!!!! :-)

[Kinsman]

Further to this and after reading and checking my files as above....(they were already ANSI) I found the following was the simple fix required.

- On your pop­corn hour go to Setup menu, under sub­ti­tles change the lan­guage to Eng­lish (Or any lan­guage, but not NONE), this will make sure the sub­ti­tles always run when you load a movie in your selected language.

[diablo]

I knew this from before, but the other thing is - why don't we have normal choice of all srt files to load? Why does it have to be same named?

I am having issues when we are using three languages subs - english, Croatian and Italian.
I have to rename files for these, and I'd prefer to just select that.

Shouldn't be such a hard problem, should it?

[Shamino]

Yes, works fine, thx.