

Worked for me, hope it works for you too." srt file NJStar made for you via the Video menu, Subtitles track, Open file. When you begin your movie, simply choose the. I chose SimHei - C:\Windows\Fonts\simhei.ttf).įinally, save preferences, and restart VLC. Of course, you'll want to choose a font with Chinese characters. (You may have to type out the file path for the font I wasn't able to browse for it anyway. Set the preferences to "show all," and then go into Video - Subtitles / OSD and change "text rendering mode" from "default" to "Freetype2 font renderer." Now, expand the Subtitles/OSD menu and go down to "Text Rendering." Choose a Unicode font to display. Next, you need to set up VLC: Go to preferences, and in Subtitles/OSD, change Default Encoding to UTF-8. Now when you open the *new* file in Notepad, you should see the Chinese characters. srt file to UTF8 - it will create a new file in a separate folder (easy to find), with the same name as your original. On the advice of another forum, I downloaded the trial version of NJStar, (incidentally, this program can also do Japanese & Korean.) Use this program (it's Universal Code Converter) to convert your. srt file is garbled is because it isn't encoded right. "I was having the same problem, but after much searching, I found some things that helped solve it for me:įirst, I think the reason your. I tried to embed the file using VLC, Subtitle Workshop, Aegisub, SubtitleEdit, Moviesubtitler, and some more, but I got gibberish characters. Initially, my OS did not support Asian languages, so I had to install additional Windows packages. srt file with Chinese subtitles, which I need to embed into a short video (avi, mpeg, mp4, etc. How to gain experience as a translator? 12 RE: Last Vestige of Freedom 2 Past three years 'gardening' not a loaded term - misrepresenting article 3 What is important in the Options panel is to keep MP4 support enabled so that this splitter is called by Subtitle Workshop for MP4 as for MKV.Watch out a Translation Fraud! 4 Past three years I personnaly keep on using MPC-HC and its internal Matroska splitter as preferred media player for videos. Here is what to do to fix this issue (thanks to Kameleon): to download the Haali Media Splitter and install it.ĭuring the splitter installation process, it is proposed to disable two other Matroska splitters (including the one of K-Lite) and to associate mkv files with Window Media Player, but you don't have to do that if you don't want. My default player was MPC-HC with a fresh installation of K-Lite codec pack, this video player opens perfectly MKV and MP4 but Subtitle Workshop, by default, does not ! The issue with MKV and MP4 exists, Gab Arito, because I had exactly the same issue with fresh installations of both 6.0b and 6.0c versions.
