Greek Subtitles Encoding Using VLC on Mac.

Posted by: doxaras on: March 23, 2008

In: mac
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Vlc is my favorite player and has stood by my side many times in the past. After the upgrade on Leopard, adopted a strange behavior, so when it came to Greek subtitles encoding, the application adopted some assumptions on the proper encoding character-set, which just weren’t right.

Solution:

Type 88, and goto preferences->Input/Codecs->Other codecs -> Subtitle and set field Subtitles Text Encoding to ISO-8859-7. So simple as that. Now you may enjoy endless Lost/PBreak/Heroes/IT Crowd episodes with the proper subtitles in Greek.

Tags: greek encoding, mac subtitles, vlc

47 Responses to "Greek Subtitles Encoding Using VLC on Mac."

1 | sofia
April 8, 2008 at 7:26 pm

hello

2 | Elias
April 21, 2008 at 1:04 am

THank you very much that was very helpfull

3 | nips
May 7, 2008 at 12:25 pm

Thanks, it was really helpful!

4 | Nikos
May 12, 2008 at 3:55 pm

I use the latest release of VLC and I cannot watch a movie with displaying greek subtitles as vlc probably cannot recognize them. Although I can find the tab Input/Codecs I cannot find the tab other codecs to change the endoding. please help

vlassis
June 15, 2010 at 11:01 pm

u have to go >preferences>subs & OSD > default enconding and then choose “greek (ISO-8859-7)

5 | Chris
June 3, 2008 at 12:51 pm

I have the same problem with Nikos. I can’t find a tab or something that contains “other codecs” so that I can change the text encoding.
Help, please
I have version 0.8.6f of VLC

6 | niiikouf
July 8, 2008 at 11:08 pm

thank u very much!!!!i’m new in macs and u’ve helped a lot!it works perfectly on 10.5.4!

7 | Alexandra
July 30, 2008 at 3:38 pm

I have tried the above steps…but still no luck with the subtitles….they do not appear at all….

8 | doxaras
July 30, 2008 at 4:15 pm

Then it maybe an issue with your file encoding. I have tested this both on tiger and leopard and it works like a charm. Anyway if you open your file can you view the content with the correct encoding ?

9 | Alexandra
August 1, 2008 at 6:10 pm

For doxaras……
thank you for your reply re greek subs…. is it possible to help me thru skype…..thank you ….my skype name is tahleea

10 | sklavounos spiros
August 15, 2008 at 11:32 pm

where do i have to type88

dan
April 3, 2012 at 9:55 pm

where? where? where do you type 88? i don’t get it and i can’t find other codecs either…

11 | afa
September 12, 2008 at 4:11 pm

THANKS A LOT!!!!!

12 | Mike
October 28, 2008 at 11:41 pm

this works for vlc player for windows to …THank you very much that was very helpfull

13 | Nicolas
October 29, 2008 at 8:51 pm

I was mad because I had the last episodes of Fringe and I couldn’t set VLC to accept Greek. Then I googled your note and I am a very very happy person now. Thanks again.

Nicolas

14 | Billy
January 9, 2009 at 9:31 pm

Thanks man! worked really good for me!

cheers

15 | angelw
January 25, 2009 at 2:15 pm

THEEEEEEEEEEEEENNKKKKSSSSSSSSSSS

16 | Nikos
February 16, 2009 at 11:34 pm

Where do u type 88? And where is the ‘other codecs’ tab?Cant find it Which version of VLC are we talking about again ??

17 | angelidis walandi
March 23, 2009 at 1:30 pm

thanks!!

18 | kris
March 24, 2009 at 12:32 pm

thank you!you save me a lot of trouble!

19 | alexi0us
April 4, 2009 at 8:00 pm

That’s a good one! Thanks!

20 | panos
April 15, 2009 at 12:17 pm

thanks

21 | kyriacos
June 10, 2009 at 7:51 pm

thanx dude.. best tip ever..

22 | thekliar
June 15, 2009 at 12:08 am

nice one lad!!!! cheers

23 | YANNIS
September 26, 2009 at 5:35 pm

THANKS A LOT!VERY USEFUL FOR A NEW MAC USER,AS ME!

24 | vasara
October 4, 2009 at 3:22 pm

Thanks!!

25 | Nik Pel
October 17, 2009 at 7:19 pm

A lot of times, displays squares for i with tonos and for final s.
How do you guys fix that ?. I use Snow Leo.

Finally, I tried QT 7 with Perian and is solved

26 | Christos
October 23, 2009 at 11:18 am

hi Nik I have the same problem with greek subs.It shows cubes. What do you mean QT 7 ? And what’s Perian?I’m new with mac as well,I would appreciate your help

27 | Fred Astaire
November 23, 2009 at 2:53 am