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I'm trying to create a video player with subtitles. everything is set up and working correctly , except one thing. my Arabic subtitles are not showing correctly as they should be. they look so weird with symbols and stuff.. something like this :

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Here's my ExoPlayer Setup with subtiltes :

Uri srt = Uri.parse("http://download1651.mediafire.com/titdvyxje25g/j5wpodffdhn005r/Thor+3+.WEB+%28NoColored%29.srt");
    
    Handler mainHandler = new Handler();
    BandwidthMeter bandwidthMeter = new DefaultBandwidthMeter();
    TrackSelection.Factory videoTrackSelectionFactory =
            new AdaptiveTrackSelection.Factory(bandwidthMeter);
    TrackSelector trackSelector =
            new DefaultTrackSelector(videoTrackSelectionFactory);
    player =
            ExoPlayerFactory.newSimpleInstance(this, trackSelector);
    DefaultBandwidthMeter bandwidthMeter2 = new DefaultBandwidthMeter();
    DataSource.Factory dataSourceFactory = new DefaultDataSourceFactory(this,
            Util.getUserAgent(this, "yourApplicationName"), bandwidthMeter2);
    Format textFormat = Format.createTextSampleFormat(null, MimeTypes.APPLICATION_SUBRIP,
            null, Format.NO_VALUE, Format.NO_VALUE, "ar", null, Format.OFFSET_SAMPLE_RELATIVE);
    MediaSource videoSource = new ExtractorMediaSource.Factory(dataSourceFactory)
            .createMediaSource(Uri.parse(getVideoUri()));
    MediaSource textMediaSource = new SingleSampleMediaSource.Factory(dataSourceFactory)
            .createMediaSource(srt, textFormat, C.TIME_UNSET);
    MediaSource mediaSource = new MergingMediaSource(videoSource, textMediaSource);


    player.prepare(mediaSource);

is there any solution on how to fix that ?

mahdi
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Tamim Attafi
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2 Answers2

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The encoding of that file is windows-1256. you should change it to Unicode first and then you can see it correctly.

BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(
        new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream("arabic sub.srt"), "windows-1256")
    );
String line = null;
BufferedWriter writer = new BufferedWriter(
    new OutputStreamWriter(new FileOutputStream("new.srt"), "UTF-8")
);
while((line = reader.readLine())!= null){        
    writer.write(line);
    writer.write("\r\n");
}
writer.close();
VahidN
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  • So these lines of code are going to recreate the .srt in UTF-8? My .srt is loaded directly from the web.. Do u think that it will work? U can look above on my code that I'm using a Uri.. Please can provide me with more explanation ? Thank you – Tamim Attafi Feb 21 '18 at 04:16
  • You can download the file, change its encoding using the mentioned code and then convert its local path to Uri this way: `new File(path).toURI().toURL();` – VahidN Feb 21 '18 at 07:18
  • thank you, I've just converted my .srt before uploading them. i think that would be easier cause i have to edit them too. – Tamim Attafi Feb 25 '18 at 17:59
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The accepted answer is awesome but slight changes are required in case of Android

new FileOutputStream(filename.extension)

won't work, you will either need to use getFilesDir() or getExternalFilesDir()

The latter will require WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission

If you are loading the srt file from network use

new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(new URL(https://yoursrturl).openConnection().getInputStream());

Hope it helps.

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