Problem with adding subtitles to an avi with mencoder; accents appearing as ?'s

[Robert Buckmaster]

Hi,

Following this guide http://www.howtoguidehome.com/main/i...emid=3&lang=en, I used mencoder to add subtitles to an avi file. This was the command I entered.

mencoder Le_fabuleux_destin_d\'Amélie_Poulain.avi -oac copy -ovc lavc -sub Le_fabuleux_destin_d\'Amélie_Poulain.srt -subfont-text-scale 3 -o Le_fabuleux_destin_d\'Amélie_Poulainsubs.avi

Unfortunately, the French accents in the output video appear as ?'s. Is there any way to fix this?

Thanks.

[Robert Buckmaster]

This French help page gives the solution http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/mencoder. Adding the flag -utf8 makes sure the accents are properly rendered. In my case, the correct command line was as follows.

mencoder Le_fabuleux_destin_d\'Amélie_Poulain.avi -oac copy -ovc lavc -sub Le_fabuleux_destin_d\'Amélie_Poulain.srt -utf8 -subfont-text-scale 3 -o Le_fabuleux_destin_d\'Amélie_Poulainsubs.avi

[wildmanne39]

Thanks for sharing and please do not post in threads that have not had activity for a year or longer, since this is an old thread it has been closed.