

- #VLC FOR MAC SUBS HOW TO#
- #VLC FOR MAC SUBS MAC OS X#
- #VLC FOR MAC SUBS INSTALL#
- #VLC FOR MAC SUBS ARCHIVE#
#VLC FOR MAC SUBS ARCHIVE#


#VLC FOR MAC SUBS MAC OS X#
Click on the menu View > VLSub or VLC > Extension > VLSub on Mac OS X.To know this directory, once VLsub is installed as explained above, launCh VLC and open VLsub, and click "show config", and you will see it there.
#VLC FOR MAC SUBS INSTALL#
To install the translations, copy the directory named "locale" into the VLSub working directory : the mkv file and it played perfectly fine on my iPad or Mac under VLC.
#VLC FOR MAC SUBS HOW TO#
Anyways, if you want to load a subtitle file for your movie in VLC for Mac, you can follow the given steps: How to Add Subtitles: After opening VLC on MacOS, click on File and select Open File which will open a new window. VLC is now using a unicode font that can display all Chinese, Korean and Japanese characters correctly.VLC extension to download subtitles from Apart from the subtitle feature, you can also find all other features and options that you would found on Windows. You might need to restart VLC after changing these font settings. If Arial Unicode MS is not in the list, you can download and install it from here Now make sure the font is set to Arial Unicode MS, other unicode fonts should also work. Step 3: expand the Subtitles / OSD item, and select text renderer. Step 2: in the bottom left corner of the preferences screen underneath show settings, select the all radiobutton Step 1: open the VLC settings by pressing Ctrl+ P or by going to Tools > Preferences

If you are sure the file is encoded in UTF-8 but the subtitles still show up as boxes or weird symbols, you should make sure you are using the right font in VLC. You can easily convert a text file to unicode with the convert to UTF-8 tool. You need to convert the subtitles to UTF-8 for them to be readable in VLC. The second picture is the same file converted to UTF-8, displaying correctly. The first picture shows a file using Chinese text encoding, and can't be read by Notepad or VLC.
