Данчо Posted August 1, 2007 Share Posted August 1, 2007 I mostly use VLC to play my movies, but now I came across a movie in a weird language and I need subtitles. The .sub file is in cyrillic, so the standard font would not appear. A standard fix for BS Player in Windows was changing the font encoding to cyrillic, but I don't see such options in VLC for Mac. Any ideas how to get this working..? Maybe i need a cyrillic font...? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/58721-cyrillic-subtitles-on-vlc/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
R2k. Posted August 2, 2007 Share Posted August 2, 2007 bro,i`m using MPlayer OSX successfully with cyrillic encoding ... because MPlayer have option to chose encoding,fonts (you can choose cyrillic) ... good player,try it,it`s free ... ~R Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/58721-cyrillic-subtitles-on-vlc/#findComment-418949 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Данчо Posted August 2, 2007 Author Share Posted August 2, 2007 Thanks fot the tip, did what you said, but still no subtitles.... Prolly doing smth wrong... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/58721-cyrillic-subtitles-on-vlc/#findComment-419200 Share on other sites More sharing options...
R2k. Posted August 2, 2007 Share Posted August 2, 2007 i think that you must add some bulgarian cyrillic font to your Font Book,and than choose that font from MPlayer ... it`s complicated indeed ... ~R Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/58721-cyrillic-subtitles-on-vlc/#findComment-419223 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Данчо Posted August 2, 2007 Author Share Posted August 2, 2007 got it, selected a different encoding: CP2150 instead of just cyrillic! HOWEVER, fullscreen playback is slow and choppy on this player, i guess the 13" macbook can't handle it. Even worse on the 32" LCD... Have to watch in a window now Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/58721-cyrillic-subtitles-on-vlc/#findComment-419252 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wizi Posted August 2, 2007 Share Posted August 2, 2007 My MacBook handle full screen without any problems. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/58721-cyrillic-subtitles-on-vlc/#findComment-419451 Share on other sites More sharing options...
R2k. Posted August 3, 2007 Share Posted August 3, 2007 i have 17" screen and everything works nice in fullscreen .... i really don`t know ... ~R Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/58721-cyrillic-subtitles-on-vlc/#findComment-419597 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Данчо Posted August 3, 2007 Author Share Posted August 3, 2007 The slow playback appears when I select "use second monitor", because otherwise it won't appear on the external display in fullscreen. I think it should work if I use the external LCD as a primary monitor (close the lid and wake up with remote). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/58721-cyrillic-subtitles-on-vlc/#findComment-419751 Share on other sites More sharing options...
drmr Posted September 1, 2007 Share Posted September 1, 2007 got it, selected a different encoding: CP2150 instead of just cyrillic!HOWEVER, fullscreen playback is slow and choppy on this player, i guess the 13" macbook can't handle it. Even worse on the 32" LCD... Have to watch in a window now VLC -> Preferences -> Input/Codecs -> Subtitles -> Subtitles text encoding -> CP1251. This is for bulgarian subtitles. You need to select the proper encoding. The problem is that there are different encodings used among the same language. I think there is no need to install additional fonts in order to display them (or at least I haven't done so). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/58721-cyrillic-subtitles-on-vlc/#findComment-439769 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dubesor Posted December 7, 2007 Share Posted December 7, 2007 thanks for the VLC tip. this worked for me on another video Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/58721-cyrillic-subtitles-on-vlc/#findComment-531012 Share on other sites More sharing options...
esculap Posted March 16, 2008 Share Posted March 16, 2008 actually, for the 0.8.6d version i'm using, the encodint options is under: VLC -> Preferences -> Input/Codecs -> Other Codecs -> Subtitles -> Subtitles text encoding hope this helps anyone Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/58721-cyrillic-subtitles-on-vlc/#findComment-669924 Share on other sites More sharing options...
desichka Posted November 12, 2008 Share Posted November 12, 2008 This doesn't work for me...or may be I'm doing something wrong... Please advise! I am trying to play cyrillic (Bulgarian) subtitles on VLC and I did everything you guys have discussed here and nothing seems to help. I have both the movie (.avi) and the subtitles (.idx) in the same folder. I changed the subtitles encoding to 1251 and yet, no subtitles seem to appear. I even tried this on a MPlayer and didn't work also... Any suggestions? Thank you in advance! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/58721-cyrillic-subtitles-on-vlc/#findComment-964022 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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