Unable to read SUB text in notepad

Techman2007 · 27th June 2009, 04:53

I’d like to edit the SUB file for a movie but it looks all gibberish
How can I nake it viewable when I open the SUB file in notepad?
Example below
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0xdeadbeef · 27th June 2009, 10:03

Define "SUB" file. If it's e.g. a SUB part of a SUB/IDX pair, it's a binary file containing a DVD subtitle stream and of course Notepad is not able to decode this stream.

29th June 2009, 17:50

Quote:

Originally Posted by Techman2007

I’d like to edit the SUB file for a movie but it looks all gibberish
How can I nake it viewable when I open the SUB file in notepad?

You can't. Notepad doesn't decode binary files which is why you see gibberish. You need to download and use a subtitle editor.

smileBhappy · 6th July 2009, 18:35

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gokumon

You can't. Notepad doesn't decode binary files which is why you see gibberish. You need to download and use a subtitle editor.

you beat me to it.

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Techman2007 Registered User Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 1	Unable to read SUB text in notepad I’d like to edit the SUB file for a movie but it looks all gibberish How can I nake it viewable when I open the SUB file in notepad? Example below ºDÕ ‰Ãø ½ ³ #¡ œš ©I©éÉé ž˜ÚÞ © ž˜ÚÞ ¢š”š˜ž © “-©É© “-© “)© š ©É¡ ”š‘ ©© š‘ © šÓ) š‘ 2Ú‘ ¡‘©I©‰2 š5©É© š5© š1© š ©É¡ ”š‘ ©© š‘ © šÚ1 š‘ £Z‘ á ”š˜š1 ÚØ I©É© ÚØ I© ÚØ é¡ ˜Ú ©I‰ééÉé ž˜Ú ‰é¡ Ø I*‰é¡š”š˜ÚØ AP

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0xdeadbeef Author of BDSup2Sub Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 478	Define "SUB" file. If it's e.g. a SUB part of a SUB/IDX pair, it's a binary file containing a DVD subtitle stream and of course Notepad is not able to decode this stream.