Media Player with support for Unicode Fonts

[karasardelis]

Hi there,

The reason I'm starting this thread is to find a media player to support international fonts. You see i have two daughters that they like to watch cartoons a lot. I usually record or download those cartoons and have them all in divx avi files. I recently bought a cheap HDD based media player and copied all files and folders to a disk that i placed in that box which then connected to the TV i have in the kids room - so far so good...

The problem is that my daughters can read and speak only in Greek at the moment (the biggest one is five years old). All the files and folders are in Greek language because my daughters can't read words like "Cinderella" or "Smurfs", but even if they read them, they will not understand their meaning (those characters are called different in some countries.

Do you know of any kind of player that can show files and folders in greek language and support any kind of playback? Subtitle support would be nice bit it's not something i need at the moment. I don't even care if it is a disk based player or a Lan / Wireless player - let it be anything... I just need the support for Greek fonts fr files and folders...

If you happen to have a well supported player that you believe might support such feature, please make a folder with Greek characters in a place that will be accessible by your player and just check if it shows real text or garbage. If you can't type or find a Greek text to make the folder, then please copy and paste the following:

ΣΤΑΧΤΟΠΟΥΤΑ

Really thank you for reading... :thumbsup:

[wywywywy]

I have also been looking for one to support CJK (Chinese Japanese Korean) for a quite a while.
Other than some really dodgy streamers that I saw in China, I have not seen any that supports Unicode properly...

Most do support Western European characters though.

[Petrushka]

Hi. I made a new folderon my Diskstation (media server) using the Greek name above. I then switched on my Pinnacle Showcenter. It doesn't even display the directory at all.

So unfortunately enough I can't help you, but at least now you know this is what you *don't* want... :rolleyes:

[karasardelis]

Hi. I made a new folderon my Diskstation (media server) using the Greek name above. I then switched on my Pinnacle Showcenter. It doesn't even display the directory at all.

So unfortunately enough I can't help you, but at least now you know this is what you *don't* want... :rolleyes:


Hi there, thank you for your effort...

After some research i did, it seems that the only working solution at the moment is to use a patched xbox with xmbc loaded. It's the only media player that support Files, Folders and subtitles in almost any language (well, a lot of). You can even select a Greek interface... So, i already ordered a used xbox from eBay... that's it... until some company brings a decent media player at least... :smashin:

[TMaG82]

I have also been looking for one to support CJK (Chinese Japanese Korean) for a quite a while.
Other than some really dodgy streamers that I saw in China, I have not seen any that supports Unicode properly...

Most do support Western European characters though.

I'm not sure about Chinese or Japanese, but most of the HD players if you update them using the Korean firmware will display correctly. I have a few Chinese files that I could try for you if you want, but I recently bought my mom a Mediagate MG-25 and tried playing Korean files and nothing. Went onto mediagate.co.kr and updated using the latest Korean firmware, files, directories, all show up fine.

[wywywywy]

Hi.

The problem is not many players have Chinese/Japanese/Korean firmwares.
But thanks for the tip, I will look at Mediagates.
If it displays Korean, I suspect it will display Chinese and Japanese too!
(Although it might miss off some Chinese characters.)

For the time being I have media centre PCs everywhere...

Thanks.