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  1. Member
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    Hi everyone

    I have a Philips DVD/Divx player (DVP3146K/98) and it supports (.srt, .smi, .sub, .ssa, .txt) divx subtitles. I'v burned a divx disc with the .avi and the .srt in the same folder and (same name). The video works fine but the subtitle isn't in the language i want (Arabic), It's has mixed letters and characters between latin, chinese, trees and squares.

    I switched between the region codes but the problem stills. My question is: Did i miss a step in the burning stage, like i had to modify something in the .srt file.

    please help
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    It maybe doesn't support arabic characters. You could try make a divx with image subtitles using sub2divx or AVIAddXSubs.
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  3. You might need a firmware update.
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    Baldrick is probably right. Philips DVD players support Latin and Cyrillic character sets for Divx subtitles and that is all. I am not aware of any exceptions.

    We get posts here all the time from guys who want to see Divx with Arabic subtitles and can't find a player that supports it. I don't think there is going to be a solution for you except to encode your files with what we call "hard subtitles' where they are part of the video image.
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    jman98, there is no need to re-encode the video and make hard subs. The solution suggested by Baldrick is lossless, way easier and faster; xsub is the most appropriate format for stand-alone players. I use AVIAddXSubs which has never disappointed me, it is an excellent tool.
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