unreadable subtitles

[pikris]

hi. i 've downloaded greek subtitles for my movies and when i open them in notepad i can read them allright.But when i but them in the movie the characters are just unreadable.mabe is the encoding, but how i can change it? please help me
thanx

[Baldrick]

are you converting to dvd? what tools??
or are just burning and playing on your divx standalone dvd player ??

[pikris]

no i am just watching avi on my pc

[Baldrick]

what video player? or are you using vobsub or ffdshow?

[pikris]

media player and vlc player.i just rename the subtitle file exactly as the movies name with the .sub extention

[Baldrick]

search the vlc forum, http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=4310&highlight=greek

[pikris]

ok that didnt help but thanx anyway.
can you tell me a way to change subtitles enciding please?mabe this is the answer

[celtic_druid]

Easiest is probably just to use Unicode/UTF-8, that way you don't need to worry about encoding. As to changing the encoding in VLC; no idea and for wmp it would depend on the renderer.

[handyguy]

if you have a .sub, you also need a .idx file to match it.

If its .srt keep it that way.

[celtic_druid]

If it were sub/idx then it would be bitmap based, so no character encoding issues.