subtitles - Polish unicode characters on Windows

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2014-07
  • Kelbizzle

    I downloaded some polish subtitles to a movie for my friend's dad, and some of the characters are just numbers and jumbled looking characters.

    I was wondering what I would have to do to get these characters to show correctly.

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  • Hagen von Eitzen

    It is unclear what file format you used to hold the text and which application is used to display the content of that file. As a general rule, you must ensure that the character-encoding of the text matches the encoding the program expects and also that the font used supports all characters needed. If you say that only some of the characters look weird (those with some kind diacritics, I assume: ĄĆĘŁŃÓŚŹŻąćęłńóśźż) it is most likely that one of the two parties uses UFT-8 and the other a specific code page such as ISO8859-2 or Windows-1250. If there were a problem with the font, the most likely effect would be that placeholders (empty squares) are displayed, and I understand that this is not th ecase here. (More could be said if you gave specific examples of a case of expected and displayed text)


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  • Alix Axel

    What is a good program to download synced subtitles for my movies while allowing me to specify the language I want?


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  • Jasper

    SubDownloader is a program for automatic download/upload subtitles for videofiles (DIVX,MPEG,AVI,VOB,etc) and DVD's using fast hashing.

    Providing a friendly interface, users have a better movie experience since searching for subtitles is no longer dull or boring. SubDownloader follows the KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid) priciple. You just want to watch a good movie, right?! So, subtitle searching and matching for your movies should be a simple task. It is now! :-)

    some key features:

    Fast hashing algorithm (27 GB movies/7 seconds)

    Recursively folders search

    Autodetect language of the subtitles

    Upload entire series seasons subtitles in less than 1 minute

    SubDownloader (for Windows) is shareware.

    if they're not in sync, you can use Subtitle Workshop to sync the subs with the movie or use a media player that allows for subtitle speed adjustment during playback (e.g. SMPlayer)

    Subtitle Workshop is freeware.

    SMPlayer is open source freeware, a portable version is available.

  • T. Kaltnekar

    Latest version of BSPlayer has this function built in. However it only checks opensubtitles.org, I'm guessing they will add more sites in next versions.

  • Corey

    Personally, I use a combination of Subtitle Search and Subtitle Workshop to easily find and process subtitles. With Subtitle Search, you input a title and it searches for the IMDB record of that movie to verify the correct movie. You can put in different settings (what providers you want to search, what language you want, so on and so forth).

    It then searches several subtitle databases (including, but not limited to, OpenSubtitles.org) using your settings and provides a comprehensive list of subtitle downloads if there are any.

    Now, sometimes these subtitles will work flawlessly, and that's great. More often than not, however, the subtitles will be played too fast or too slow (in my experience, it seems like all the videos I have are playing 24 FPS, but all the subtitles are run in 25 FPS, making them too fast). Or, perhaps the video you have starts immediately into the action while the subtitles have a long pause for opening credits and such. This is what Subtitle Workshop is for.

    You can easily change the FPS playback of the subtitles with two clicks, and ditto for shifting the start and end times. It's very intuitive and does all the hard calculations.

    Note: both programs are freeware, but Windows-only as far as I can tell.

  • Nuno

    I like using OSCAR. The name is quite smart (OSDb Client Application) and it's simple to use.

    Drawbacks: The last version was released a couple of years ago, but it works fine.

    Main features:

    quick and accurate search/download of subtitle files for your movies

    upload subtitles to help out others in need ;)

    multi-language support?

    Windows Explorer integration

    command-line parameters?

    proxy support

    IMDb support

    drag-n-drop support

    I tried Sublight and SubDownloader2 before. SubDownloader2 isn't free for the Windows platform and I found Sublight a little cumbersome when I was testing it.

  • ForkUp

    I have been searching for a tool for automatic subtitles downloading for my favorite TV shows. A few days ago I found an excellent tool - http://github.com/KonishchevDmitry/pysd. For now it the best tool for me, so I recommend it to you.

  • 8088

    Some of the marvelous features offered by Sub Downloader are:

    1. Automatic subtitle download
    2. Play movies directly from Sub Downloader
    3. Download subtitles in your favorite languages
    4. Independent search
    5. Upload your own subtitles
  • Savageman

    SPlayer is a good software which downloads subtitles automagically. It allows to choose between different subtitles tracks.

    Apart from that, I don't see another solution than searching the web for subtitles... tvsubtitle.net for instance.

  • Alix Axel

    Well, not to answer my own question (I'm still looking for something that's better) but Kantaris is free and much better than the alternatives mentioned here so far.

    Normally it finds synced subs in several languages from OpenSubtitles and I'm happy with it, the only drawback is that there isn't a option to actually save the downloaded subtitles (they are temporarily stored in a obscure folder).

    If anyone knows a better free alternative that allows me to save the subtitles please let me know.

  • nXqd

    You know what, you already use the best - Browser . Open your browser, type subscene.com> find what subtitles you want :) It's the best way I think :)