Tell me if my subtitles are good

[rseiler]

I picked up three high-quality AVI movies. Each is accompanied by an idx, srt, (both under 100K) and a sub file (4 or 5 MB). BSPlayer plays the movie fine and picks up the subtitles, but they're not only not English, they're not any language. They're high-order ASCII characters of the sort that I can't even type in this space. With BSPlayer I tried loading both the sub and the srt, since I wasn't sure which one it loaded automatically, but that doesn't help.

What should I do? I find it hard to believe that the files are trashed, but then I don't quite know how to prove that or what else to try.

Thanks

[kalayaan]

you may want to try to open the srt and sub files in subtitle workshop (free, i think) to see whether the contents are trash or not.

[johns0]

Just open the srt file with notepad and you can tell if its in english or jibberish.The srt files is written in plain text with the time indexed for all the sentences.

[rseiler]

Example of a line in the srt:

3
0: 2:56, 0 --> 0: 3: 0,949
½Ð¸Ô²Ó»¡©úÂ÷±Bªº²z¥Ñ

Subtitle Workshop won't open the srt or sub's. For each it says: "Bad subtitle or unspported format."

I guess it's looking like both files (for each movie) are corrupt?!

[johns0]

Thats not a proper english srt then,dont know but it might be in some other language that uses those symbols.Its not corrupt cause it still contains the index for the time.

[rseiler]

I found that vobsub needed to be loaded for the subtitles to appear in English.