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Enable heuristic character set detection for SRT subtitles #2247
Description
verion: 1.6.0-rc01
Two ways:
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Using a local cheat, it appears as garbled code.
After transcoding the file stream to UTF-8, it can be displayed normally.
Path.utf8(file) -
When adding subtitles online, it appears as garbled text.
new MediaItem.SubtitleConfiguration.Builder(Uri.parse(getUrl())).setLabel(getName()).setMimeType(getFormat()).setSelectionFlags(getFlag()).setLanguage(getLang()).build();
file :
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icbaker commentedon Mar 19, 2025
The provided file is an SRT file. I agree with #2167 (comment), this is a duplicate of google/ExoPlayer#3644. I will close that and use this to track it instead, to move it to this issue tracker.
[-]How to solve the problem of garbled text when loading online non-UTF-8 subtitles, such as GBK?[/-][+]Enable heuristic character set detection for SRT subtitles[/+]WoKee commentedon Aug 20, 2025
icbaker commentedon Aug 20, 2025
Plans have not changed since google/ExoPlayer#3644 (comment), in particular this sentence is still true:
Support custom charset detection for SubRip subtitles
Support custom charset detection for SubRip subtitles
icbaker commentedon Sep 28, 2026
This is fixed by 081a432