Forign Subtitles Not Displaying Properly (Russian Subtitles)


  1. Posts : 6
    Windows 7
       #1

    Forign Subtitles Not Displaying Properly (Russian Subtitles)


    Hey, this problem has been giving me a headache for days and a million Google searches later: I downloaded subtitles that are Russian (.srt), however when I open up the video file in Windows Media Player or VLC the subtitles are displaying as gibirish, like this: "Король Георг Пятый правит более чем четвертью населения земного шара." When I open up the .srt file in notepad, the gibberish is still there:

    "1
    00:00:26,054 --> 00:00:31,117
    1925 год.
    Король Георг Пятый правит более чем четвертью населения земного шара."

    Note sure what to do :'(?

    I made sure that Russian language pack is chosen in the regional control panel. And the subtitles are encoded as UTF-8. Finally, I have tried 3 different subtitles that I could find and they're all the same, gibberish.

    What do? Help?

    Thanks a lot.

    Tl;dr: Russian subtitles displaying as gibberish, help?
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  2. Posts : 8,679
    Windows 10 Pro x64
       #2

    Did you change your Enconding? I don't about Russian,but for Macedonian I set it to Cyrillic.
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  3. Posts : 6
    Windows 7
    Thread Starter
       #3

    Hey, thanks for the reply but I'm not 100% sure about how to go about doing that?
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  4. Posts : 8,679
    Windows 10 Pro x64
       #4

    I'm using GOM Player. In GOM I do it on this way:
    Preferences->Subtitle->Others->Code Page: Cyrillic.
    I was searching to the internet for VLC and found this:
    VLC -> Preferences -> Input/Codecs -> Subtitles -> Subtitles text encoding -> CP1251.This is for bulgarian subtitles.
    for the 0.8.6d version i'm using, the encoding options is under:
    VLC -> Preferences -> Input/Codecs -> Other Codecs -> Subtitles -> Subtitles text encoding
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