Okay... I've been banging my heads for the past several days now and have read tons of post and tried loads of programs to combine korean smi file with the related avi.
So what's happening is that in Subtitle Workshop, I am able to get the smi file to show up properly (when I choose Hangeul as the encoding or whatever on the left hand side). Then I am forced to convert it to SRT or SSA to work with AVI-Mux... However, when I use AVI-Mux to combine the files, the output AVI file shows unreadable subtitles, just a bunch of junk instead of Korean.
Thanks for your response. I just tried but I am still running into the same problem as before which is that when I add the subtitle, the subtitle is garbage characters instead of Korean :(
I know the subtitle files are good because they read just fine with Subtitle Workshop, any ideas? Thanks!
Maybe AlltoAvi: http://alltoavi.sourceforge.net/ Never used it for sub's but say's it will. Only other suggestion I have is see if you can grab another set of sub's at a site like Subscene and try again: http://subscene.com/
I mean the subs work, as in, they display just fine in Subtitle Workshop (and they play just fine on some computer programs that play Korean movies (it looks at the avi file PLUS the smi file which is in Korean).
In Subtitle Workshop, I just have to change it from ANSI to Hangeul for it to display properly, so maybe it's an encoding issue?
I feel your pain and I joined this forum just to reply to your query. The problem is the language settings on your computer. If you are using vista you need to do a couple things for this to work. Now I don't have experience using your method of hardsubbing but this is universal.
Go to control panel, select regional and language settings, select administrative. Then click on 'system locale'. Change your system locale to Korea, Japan, China, whatever non-roman based language you are trying to hard-sub. The thing that sucks is that your system will need a REBOOT. Once rebooted your subtitles will come out legible. Email for questions: neulite30@gmail.com
