Can't add subtitles about gnomecast

[fn-ix]

I've tried several different .srt-s for different movies and with various encodings by now and none of them have worked. However, when I convert them to .vtt-s (with the tool here), those work fine.

[keredson]

np. the other linked file should be enough. i found a python library that purports to autodetect encodings. will test out and try to incorporate into a PR soon. thanks for your all's help!

[olivieridav]

Hi @HFel,

I was experiencing the same behavior and it turned that the import was not successful due to the subtitles file not being UTF-8 encoded.

So I opened the subtitles file with gedit, saved it encoding it with utf-8 and afterwards gnomecast picked up the new file without any issue.

I hope this helps.

[keredson]

can you send a link to where i can download this subtitle file?

[olivieridav]

Hi @keredson,

The file that I had to re-encode is available here (file name is Tous.Les.Soleils.2011.FRENCH.SUBFORCED.DVDRiP.XViD-AViTECH.spa.srt).

[fn-ix]

Sorry for the late response. Unfortunately I don't have that subtitle anymore. However, in case the issue was caused for the same reason as @olivieridav gave, would it be possible to make Gnomecast automatically convert the encoding (or at least give an error message so the user knows what the problem was)?

[recchia]

Hi,

I'm facing the same problem i saved it encoding it with utf-8, but got same problem. i'l be waiting for merged PR

[keredson]

so it looks like i'm already doing this. see

gnomecast/gnomecast.py

Line 702 in 8073021

converter.read(caps, pycaption.detect_format(caps)())

by using pycaption's built in decoding detection.

so i went back and checked out Tous.Les.Soleils.2011.FRENCH.SUBFORCED.DVDRiP.XViD-AViTECH.spa.srt, and it imported just fine.

if anyone has any other examples of files that won't import for them, please post links to them here and i'll try and debug further.

[mohxinn]

Here is a subttile that fails to add:
https://1drv.ms/u/s!Aq87ZQshMd2thJ4Dfu8-O80Sg0BSGA

Works when converted to vtt as mentioned by @HFel