cyrillic subs not showed correctly

[Kaur]

Hello!

I re-encoded my movie in virtualdub and used the textsub filter to add subtitles.
I configured the textsub filter to use cyrillic charset.
In the virtualdub 2nd window where I'm supposed to see the final output,
I see correct cyrillic text.
But when I'm done encoding and watch the movie then the characters are
bunch of strange symbols again.

http://strom.on.masendav.org/stuff/rus.jpg

Could anyone please help me?

[unmei]

I don't understand whether you use the avisynth textsub filter or a VD plugin of that name (if that exists).
If you use the avisynth filter, i'd simply convert the subtitles to UTF-8 and the filter will read them correctly without any special configuration.
I always use UTF-8 even tho it were seldom 'necessary' in my case. (Actually i got so fed up with charsets i set everything to UTF-8 where possible and problems could occur -like browser, irc, mail etc).

[Kaur]

I used the VD plugin.
But how would the avisynth usage look like?
Maybe you would be so nice to write an example for me.
And how do I convert the subtitles to UTF-8?

[unmei]

textsub("mysubs.srt")
also works with *.ssa, *.ass, *.usf and whatever-else vsfilter supports. I'd put it at the end of the filter list and i think it works in all colorspaces (at least it does work in YV12 ^^).

If your subtitles are *.srt or some other format that is purely text you can open them in notepad, select "save as" and change the encoding dropdown in that dialog to UTF-8.

[ppera2]

I think that problem is not in using textsub filter in V Dub, but encoding.
In any case, you should use SSA format for subtitle, because it stores much more info about font, style, pos etc.
I always convert SRT or SUB to SSA before use textsub. It's best to do with Subresync (from same author). It's probably only available in VobSub, what is replaced with Vsfilter now (partially).
Try to get somewhere VobSub 2.23.
Then you can set easily parameters of font, position etc.