Greetings,
I'm trying to apply the freaking Greek subtitles to a movie, for my sister to watch it. I found the subtitles, (which I will attach, for no reason) and tried to make them work.(Note , that I can see English subtitles) In mplayer (my main video player) (I had the same results with other players too) the subtitles were a weird font that appears when you are trying to view a Greek or a foreign site with firefox. I understood nothing, obviously. (Note, that when I opened that text file with an editor I could see the Greek letters etc.) I asked in some channels in IRC, and I was mainly advanced to convert that text to UTF-8 (I dont really know what this means ^_^) so I used this command
iconv -f iso8859-1 -t utf-8 clockwork_orange_grk.sub > clockwork_orange_grk.sub2
(The filenames may not be right, but it doesnt matter)
I got another text file. which I couldnt understand if I opened it in a text editor (I could before the convert)and I'd get the same font that I was getting in mplayer before the convert. If I tried to apply the subtitles to mplayer I would get a "?????????????????" line instead of the subtitles. Just question marks, nothing else.
I'm not really that hopeless, and I dont really care if my sister will see the movie. But I'd like to know that I can fix this problem, and also understand what UTF is, and what format my text is right now, and also why I should convert it :/ (A solution would be great too :P)
Example of subtitles:
http://ubuntuforums.org/attachment.p...4&d=1158267909
