ß - ÈÂÀÍ, ÒÛ - ÀÁÐÀÌAlthough this text looks like garbage, it's not useless: it just needs to be re-encoded from one code page to another (and desirebly, to something non-code-page-specific, e.g. The original subtitle file I got looked like this: 1 In my favorite KMPlayer, you can load non-default subtitles via the Subtitles - Load Subtitle menu. you may have subtitles translated in several languages). Я - ИВАН, ТЫ - АБРАМMany popular video players (KMPlayer, VLC, etc), as well as DVD players, will automatically load and display the default subtitles from the file with the same name (as the DivX file) and the same folder, but you can also load additional subtitle files manually (e.g.

Here is the format of the SubRip (SRT) subtitle file (directly from Wikipedia): Subtitle number Moi Ivan, Moi Abraham.srtThere is nothing magic about a subtitle file: it's just a text file, which confirms to a certain data format. For example, this would be a pair of a DivX (AVI) and a subtitle (SRT) files: Moi Ivan, Moi Abraham.avi Normally, a subtitle file has the same name (and different extension) as the DivX file. Subtitles normally come from a separate file, such as SRT, SUB, SSA/ASS. A typical DivX (AVI) file does not contain embedded subtitles. Well, I do not really know much about this, but this is how much you - a typical movie viewer - need to know (if I misstate or omit something important, feel free to correct me). I thought I would write a post explaining how I fixed the problem (really easy) hoping that it would help someone.įirst, a quick intro to subtitles in DivX.

So, what's a girl to do? I ran a few Google searches and found some posts from people running into a similar problem, but none of them contained any answers. As I later found out, the subtitle file was encoded in ASCII for Windows-1251 (Cyrillic) code page instead of a Western code page (such as Windows-1252), so they appear fine only on a Russian version of Windows. Unfortunately, instead of legitimate Cyrillic, the subtitle captions displayed garbage (accented characters). The movie has not been released on a DVD, and I do not have a VHS player, but fortunately, I got a decent DivX version of the movie with Russian subtitles (the movie is mostly in Yiddish). I have been hunting for a copy of Moi Ivan, toi Abraham (AKA 'Ivan and Abram', 'Я - Иван, ты - Абрам') since I saw the movie on cable in mid-90s. Summary: Fixing subtitle encoding in DivX videos is easy.

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