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VLC; can't display subtitles


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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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