TanuKi Beard Posted September 12, 2012 Share Posted September 12, 2012 This is what I get. Which doesn't make sense seeing as how this very video used to work; subtitles and all. Furthermore; I believe the issue may have begun after the update, yet I am not sure of this. Lastly, I attempted to fix the issue myself by changing the subtitle encoding from Default to UTF-8. (No difference.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Nothing Here Posted September 12, 2012 Share Posted September 12, 2012 I have never seen that before in VLC. I use it. Maybe try and uninstall it and then dl the latest version and install it again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 TanuKi Beard Posted September 12, 2012 Author Share Posted September 12, 2012 I have never seen that before in VLC. I use it. Maybe try and uninstall it and then dl the latest version and install it again. Did that; just now. Sadly; the issue persists. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Ice_Blue Posted September 12, 2012 Share Posted September 12, 2012 Maybe it is a codec problem? Try and see if newer codec versions are available. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Lovell Posted September 12, 2012 Share Posted September 12, 2012 Have you tried reading the subtitle file? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Copernic Reporter Posted September 12, 2012 Reporter Share Posted September 12, 2012 Maybe it is a codec problem? Try and see if newer codec versions are available. VLC doesn't need codecs. Try to uninstall / remove VLC completely and install the last version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 TanuKi Beard Posted September 12, 2012 Author Share Posted September 12, 2012 Maybe it is a codec problem? Try and see if newer codec versions are available. Well; the videos used to work previously; without any issue. Is there maybe some other alternative .mkv player for intel macs, preferably a light software? VLC doesn't need codecs. Try to uninstall / remove VLC completely and install the last version. did it. Have you tried reading the subtitle file? The mkv files worked in the past with vlc. And still work with: XBMC Yet; I don't like that video player; because of its clunkiness; I don't need some high end media player; just a .mkv player is fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Nothing Here Posted September 12, 2012 Share Posted September 12, 2012 I'm sorry I can't help more. But maybe try using a different font for the subtitles? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Ice_Blue Posted September 12, 2012 Share Posted September 12, 2012 Try MPC Home Cinema http://mpc-hc.sourceforge.net/ Very lightweight, and portable. This is what I use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 DirtyLarry Veteran Posted September 12, 2012 Veteran Share Posted September 12, 2012 I think the issue has nothing to do with the video player, but a corrupted font file. That is what it looks like to me. Check your font folder to see if any fonts have installed recently, and if so delete them. Or if you can, change the font VLC uses by default. But it looks like it is trying to display something, so the subtitles are in fact working, but the characters are all wrong, which leads me to the font. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 TanuKi Beard Posted September 12, 2012 Author Share Posted September 12, 2012 I think the issue has nothing to do with the video player, but a corrupted font file. That is what it looks like to me. Check your font folder to see if any fonts have installed recently, and if so delete them. Or if you can, change the font VLC uses by default. But it looks like it is trying to display something, so the subtitles are in fact working, but the characters are all wrong, which leads me to the font. Well, I am now using MPlayerX; and all seems to be in order. So, I guess, VLC is not my main media player anymore. Thanks again, all of you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Copernic Reporter Posted September 12, 2012 Reporter Share Posted September 12, 2012 Upload somewhere the subtitle file; I want to try it with PotPlayer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 TanuKi Beard Posted September 13, 2012 Author Share Posted September 13, 2012 Upload somewhere the subtitle file; I want to try it with PotPlayer. .mkv file; the subtitles are part of the whole. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Shiranui Posted September 13, 2012 Share Posted September 13, 2012 Just learn Japanese. From the screenshot, though, it looks like a character encoding issue. Did you try shift-jis, and EUC too? Sometimes auto-detect doesn't work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 The_Decryptor Veteran Posted September 13, 2012 Veteran Share Posted September 13, 2012 Yeah, it's an encoding issue. VLC is choosing the wrong encoding and the characters are ending up as random Unicode characters, and since the LastResort font (the one showing in the screenshot) claims to have a glyph for every Unicode character, it's being used. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 remixedcat Posted September 13, 2012 Share Posted September 13, 2012 got any other media software open at the same time? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 ciao Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 Please see this short discussion. http://forum.videola...hp?f=2&t=103669 This should solve the problem. I agree that VLC should show an error/suggestion when the font or encoding are not the proper one(s) or even choose an encoding that will work with the current language. Of course you should jave the gliphs on your computer. What do you see if you open the Japanese wikipedia? If you can see it, the gliphs are installed on your computer and the problem is only that Japanese is not included in Arial (default for VLC) so you should change to another one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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This is what I get.
Which doesn't make sense seeing as how this very video used to work; subtitles and all.
Furthermore; I believe the issue may have begun after the update, yet I am not sure of this.
Lastly, I attempted to fix the issue myself by changing the subtitle encoding from Default to UTF-8. (No difference.)
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