Subtitles often not recognized

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Many times subtitle files won't be recognized in Movist although they work 
perfectly fine with VLC, 
Perian (Quicktime) or Plex. Now that wouldn't be an issue if Movist wasn't my 
video player of choice 
;)

I've attached an example srt file that won't work in Movist.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by betab...@gmail.com on 19 May 2010 at 2:35

Attachments:

• Lost.S06E16.720p.HDTV.x264-CTU.en.srt

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I think the problem coming from the fact that Movist doesnt have the auto 
encoding detector for the subtitle. If 
the encoder of the subtitle is something different from what Movist is set in 
the preferences, it will ignore it.

I've faced the same problem

hope that Movist team will implement this small feature soon to make Movist the 
completely great video player.

HP

Original comment by ptquanghuy@gmail.com on 19 May 2010 at 3:28

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I've seen the same issue - VLC recognizes the srt, but not Movist. Unfortunate, 
because Movist is better.

Original comment by dpcah...@gmail.com on 20 Nov 2010 at 6:42

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For anyone seeing this issue, here's a workaround which was suggested by 
joony.july in a separate bug report, which worked for me:

1.open the subtitle file using TEXTEDIT
2.Save as
3.Select Encoding -> Western (Mac OS Roman)

Save, and go play your video.

Original comment by dpcah...@gmail.com on 20 Nov 2010 at 6:57

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Movist do not see UTF subtitles unless the Text Encoding is set to Unicode 
(UTF-8) in Preferences > Subtitle. 

Original comment by cafardlu...@gmail.com on 20 Nov 2010 at 10:49