Japanese subtitles not working correctly

[lroman13]

Hello everybody!

For one of the things I use PS3 Media Server is to be able to see series with japanese subtitles, and until now I was using the version 1.30.1 of this application in a WXP (Mencoder)

But last week I bought a MacBook Pro and yesterday I installed the last version 1.52.0 and I realized when I want to watch a movie or a series with japanese subtitles some of japanese caracters doesn't appear correctly, almost all caracters are correctly but for example the caracter マ appears as ソ}

First of all I thought it was a problem of Mac system but when I tried to see the same subtitles with another application, for example VLC, all caracters appeared correctly so the next I thought is to try to use 1.30.1 in my Mac

After install 1.30.1 and try to watch a chapter of Game of Thrones in my PS3, all caracters appeared correctly and i could realize that caracters style is beautiful than 1.50 version

So I arrived to the conclusion that must be a problem in 1.50 with Japanese subtitles, hope u can help me with that!

Thank u!

[Raptor399]

Thank you for the report.

This is a bit difficult for me to reproduce, since I can't read Japanese.
Can you post a subtitle file to test with?

[lroman13]

Here u have!

http://anysubs.com/subdetails.php?subid ... episode=-1 The Walking Dead 1x05

For example there's a phrase at beginning what says マジか and appears as ソ}ジか

Thank u!

[Raptor399]

I downloaded the .zip and unpacked it, but my system doesn't seem to be able to handle the file encoding of the .srt.
The contents look like this:

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00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:03,390
DZÇÍÇ‹Ç≈ÇÃÉEÉHÅ[ÉLÉìÉOÅEÉfÉbÉhÇÕÅc

And that's also what the subtitles look like on my screen. :-/

[lroman13]

If u cannot see correctly the subtitles u should use an application called Jubler, this application is used to edit subtitles files.
When u want to open a subtitle file with this application, there's a open screen where at the top appears an encoding option, at the end of the encoding option line appears a earth icon where u have to push and there are some language options to choose, select Japanese and open the srt, then u'll be able to see correctly the file.

[Zogundar]

I downloaded the .zip and unpacked it, but my system doesn't seem to be able to handle the file encoding of the .srt.
The contents look like this:

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00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:03,390
DZÇÍÇ‹Ç≈ÇÃÉEÉHÅ[ÉLÉìÉOÅEÉfÉbÉhÇÕÅc

And that's also what the subtitles look like on my screen. :-/

I believe you need to have East Asian Language Support installed (Could you see the other katakana and hiragana characters posted in this thread?)

That should be enough to view it in something like Firefox or Chrome, but I think notepad (At least for Windows XP) or other programs would require something like Applocale. Which doesn't install easily on Vista or 7 as I understand, though I believe there is a workaround.

[Raptor399]

I downloaded the .zip and unpacked it, but my system doesn't seem to be able to handle the file encoding of the .srt.
The contents look like this:

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1
00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:03,390
DZÇÍÇ‹Ç≈ÇÃÉEÉHÅ[ÉLÉìÉOÅEÉfÉbÉhÇÕÅc

And that's also what the subtitles look like on my screen. :-/

I believe you need to have East Asian Language Support installed (Could you see the other katakana and hiragana characters posted in this thread?)

Yes, I can see (and post, teehee! ) the characters "マジか" and "ソ}ジか", and my editor can save them to a file and load them again as is.

Maybe unzip is mashing things up.
I'll create a .srt file from these two sequences of characters.

[Zogundar]

Try using applocale on your unzipping program?

[rpsx]

If u cannot see correctly the subtitles u should use an application called Jubler...select Japanese... then u'll be able to see correctly the file.

i am not able to save the .srt with any other encoding other than utf 8.
i am currently having a problem where the japanese subtitles show all japanese characters as "_ _ _ _ _ _ _"
PS3 media server sees it as "Undertermined" - was hoping there was a way to save the .srt file so PS3 media server knows it is japanese, and applies the appropriate encoding. any ideas or workarounds? i am on a mac.

thank you.

[Raptor399]

The "undetermined" probably comes from the filename, not the encoding.
Rename the file to "<movie name>.ja.srt" and PMS will recognize it.

Not that it will help much; the subtitles will still display as "_______".
MEncoder seems to be the problem; it's probably a matter of providing it the correct command line options (e.g. tell it to use the correct font and the correct subtitle codepage).