

A-S-S subtitle files play no problem on English OS computers with whatever video player. There might be an all-together simpler option. 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. Could it be because of Win XP? If it's a font thing, do you know which font your VLC is using and where to get that font? Obviously it works on your end if you're seeing that, but something's still wrong here. In most cases, when I tried to change the font, the subtitles simply left the screen, and nothing was displayed at all. But still I downloaded and tried various Chinese fonts. I have Chinese fonts on my computer (as I said, VLC menus can be displayed in Chinese), and I can type into Skype / Notepad in Chinese. On another post, someone said that's because Chinese fonts aren't installed. I followed those directions in another post, but it merely changes the subtitles to boxes. You can change only VLC's character encoding with Tools -> Preferences -> Subtitles -> Default encoding -> Universal, Chinese (GB18030). You expected "你的地址是洛杉矶三街西9212号?"? This is occurring because you've configured VLC to English language.
