I'm happy plex user for sometime now, but there is still one thing that pisses me off. There is several languages for which icu based encoding detectors fails. Czech is one of them. All czech subtitles are in windows-1250, but libicu (charlock_holmes, enca and plex I guess) detects it as iso-8859-2, which makes all the language specific characters disappear and render the subtitles completely useless. I know that it works when we transcode it into utf8 and I know about SRT2UTF-8 bundle, I'm using subliminal for downloading and transcoding subtitles but non of that is a solution, it's just workaround and not even complete and decent workaround. It won't work with embded subtitles in mkv or mp4 files and we shouldn't need third party tool to make this work. So I'm here and begging you, developers..Â
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TLDR;
Please let us specify prefered subtitles encoding on language bases in simple editable configuration file like { cs : "windows-1250", ... } and look into it when you try to decode subtitles with language suffix. Just check if the subtitles looks like utf8 and if not, use prefered encoding if specified, fallback to autodetection otherwise.
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I'm pretty sure we'll make nice shippable list of encodings really fast if you let us to do so.
Most 3.Party clients only works with utf-8 encoded subtitles, thus why we need to convert them.
And speaking of....regardless of if srt2utf-8 works for you, I would love some feedback, both good and bad, in my thread, since I, as a Dane, has no way of confirming this.
2014-07-03 13:54:07,500 (170c) : DEBUG (logkit:13) - File trigger is “D: v series\Breaking Bad\Breaking Bad - 5x11 - Confessions.avi”
2014-07-03 13:54:07,551 (170c) : DEBUG (logkit:13) - Found a valid subtitle file named “Breaking Bad - 5x11 - Confessions.PL.srt”
2014-07-03 13:54:07,611 (170c) : DEBUG (logkit:13) - The subtitle file named : D: v series\Breaking Bad/Breaking Bad - 5x11 - Confessions.PL.srt is already encoded in utf-8, so skipping
Saying that the file is already encoded in utf-8, and if so, it's a bad subtitle, or has been converted incorrectly by some editor/util!
(Try and get a new bunch of srt's)
Also found in the logs, that you have a lot of srt's without language code!
Found a valid subtitle file named "Game of Thrones - 1x08 - The Pointy End.srt"
Did you in the preferences set a preferred language?
Only game of thrones are without codes downloaded before the taking logs ;)
But about sub's how do I now they are correct tho ... So do I need Mon uft in polish so when the plugin converts to utf it will work?
You need to download, rename to match your movies, and put next to your movies.....
Then scan with Plex, and the plug-in should hopefully take care of it.
this might sounds stupid but how do i know i have correct subs?
my server is on windows 7 English so there no polish language added so even if the file is right i wont see it i guess right?
Wrong....It has nothing to do with the language of Windows....
When you name your srt files like mymovie.pl.srt I know that this is polish, so I only have to check the file for utf-8, ISO-8859-2 and windows-1250 codepages....
If I detect utf-8, I skip the file, and if not, I try to determine what codepage the file is in, so I can successfully convert it to utf-8
But if you open the file with an editor, that doesn't convert the contents, but save it as utf-8, then my plugin can't fix it.
Regarding the so called napi project, I don't know it, but bet that it's broken then.
napi project software set to download polish SRT in ANSI
rename to match title with .PL at the end
go to plex to whole show or single episode ;) refresh (not force update)
it will download meta data and start your plugin ;) after that i can see all changed into polish language with correct characters, i have also your plugin extra file for each subtitle (extension .srt.Srt2Utf-8)
not sure if to keep it or not it seems like after deleting its all working anyway so might delete ;)Â should i ??? ;)
