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DemoniChild
14th March 2008, 04:29
Hello all. I have been going out of my mind trying to do this and I hope that where I have failed others may succeed, so please direct any of your ideas and solutions in this matter my way.

Ok, so I have an .avi file which requires subs. Simple enough so I thought. The subs must be in Polish and this is where I'm hitting a wall (for those of you who don't know this the language has a lot of odd looking accents for different letters). The problem is that I have finally found a version of the subs that works with the .avi without syncing problems, unfortunately some of the characters are unrecognizable which makes this whole thing pointless. I have managed to edit the .txt file with office and change all the weird characters to correct ones. Re-saved it and when I open the .txt file everything is great... Until I try to play the movie with the subs. I have tried numerous programs and they all change most of those characters back to unrecognizable ones.

How do I deal with this problem? Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

setarip_old
14th March 2008, 06:50
Hi!

If you convert the subtitle file to .SSA format and load both the .AVI and the .SSA file into VirtualDub, do the subtitles display properly?

If so, then use this setup in VirtualDub to save the .AVI with PERMANENT subtitles...

By the way, doesn't your original, purchased DVD contain Polish subtitles?