Handbrake

Quick question if anyone happens to know... I just installed Handbrake. You really have to mess around with it a bit to get the hang of things, but man, you can actually shrink movie file sizes down to something reasonable. My issue is specifically about burning subtitles into the video since that’s an option in there. The problem is, when I burn them in, my special characters disappear. They look fine in the original .srt file, but once they're in the video, they're gone. Also, when I go to select the language, American isn't even listed—I tried selecting something else entirely, but nothing works. There are some other settings under the subtitle section for different encoding types like ISO or ASCII, but I have no clue if those are what I need. Anyone have any ideas?

Just in case anyone else is running into this, I finally figured it out. I didn't actually use Handbrake to fix it—I switched over to a free tool called Any Video Converter instead. To make it work, you’re also going to need Subtitle Edit, which is another free program. First, open your subtitles in Subtitle Edit and resave them using UTF-8 encoding. Once you load those into AVC, your special characters should show up perfectly. Plus, the settings let you tweak the subtitle position and font size if you want. You can technically do the first step with Handbrake (opening them in Subtitle Edit and choosing UTF-8), but unfortunately, Handbrake doesn't give you any control over how the subtitles look or where they sit on the screen.

We already knew that, but thanks anyway!

Roger Gray8 said:We already knew that, but thanks.

Then why didn't anyone bother to tell me? Just as I finally figured it out, Pirate Bay went offline on me...

electrichawk4 said:I mean, why didn't anyone bother telling me that beforehand??? Just when I finally figured out the solution, they went and shut down Pirate Bay on me...

I totally missed that at first, so that's why.
It’s such a bummer about TPB, but hey, thank god there are plenty of solid alternatives out there, and honestly, I bet even better ones will pop up soon enough