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I tried to upload some .srt-files (which meet the standards) but when click the "upload"-button a warning massage is displayed:

Unsupported subtitle format for CD 1. Only srt, sub, smi, txt and ssa formats are supported

Am I the only one experiencing this problem? Is there a bug in the software like it happened three years ago?

I tried to upload some .srt-files (which meet the standards) but when click the "upload"-button a warning massage is displayed:

Unsupported subtitle format for CD 1. Only srt, sub, smi, txt and ssa formats are supported

Am I the only one experiencing this problem? Is there a bug in the software like it happened three years ago?

I think that you've saved subtitles unicode format, try ANSI format.
(http://www.ehow.com/how_5942678_convert ... ormat.html)

Thanks for your help, it solved my problem

i think utf-8 would be the better alternative. you won't lose any "non-ascii" characters by using utf-8

TedTheBellhop, thanks for the clarification. Anyway, ascii works common languages, even finnish language.

I ocred the English and Spanish subs from the Sony DVD for 2046
I uploaded the Eng fine, but the Spanish keeps crapping out.
there should be no difference between it and the English, both were made same way with same software (subrip) at same settings
its name is:
2046_Sony_spanish.srt

why am i getting error:
Unsupported subtitle format for CD 1. Only srt, sub, smi, txt and ssa formats are supported?

i have tried several times and different browsers.

i give up, but please fix this, since i don't want to spend tons of time trying to upload subs
I was going to up a ton of subs today, but got stuck on the 2nd one, so this killed my time

I think you've saved it as unicode format, try to save ANSI or UTF-8 format.

probably did save it as non-ANSI, since i included all the accents, etc
tho i thought it may have been UTF-8.
guess i can resave it as UTF-8 and re-try later

any chance of this getting changed to accepted unicode?

That's question which i can't answer. I think right person to answer this is oss or scooby.

By "Unicode" you mean UTF-16? Because UTF-8 is Unicode too.

I remember that I requested UTF-16 support in another thread some time ago (can't find it now) and oss said he tried to implement it but came across problems.

In an ideal world, all subtitles should have their encoding sniffed when they're uploaded and be automatically converted to UTF-8 with a BOM. Sniffing should be possible with good accuracy -- all I've ever come across are Windows ANSI encodings or Big5/GB2312 for Chinese, and the subtitles language is an additional hint. Unifying everything to UTF-8 would also have the advantage that the same subtitles file cannot be uploaded twice with different encodings. But of course it's a lot of work to implement.

The problem is that if you use Notepad to save the files in UTF-8, it will put this in the beginning of the file to identify it as UTF-8. (or HEX EF BB BF)

You need to somehow open it in a program which does not support UTF-8 or hex editor or UltraEdit and go in configuration and under file handling disable "Auto detect UTF-8 files"

Then you just need to delete the 3 characters in the beginning of the file. It will still open normally in programs which which support UTF-8 and show the extended characters correctly.

if somebody will help me with utf16 and php routines / mysql, I can add support for it. For now, I didnt found a way, how to do that, so advices are welcome. Until that, I am sorry, only utf8 is supported only.