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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