Android box Thai sub titles not displaying correctly?

[Kenny202]

Watched a couple of movies now on my Android box (through Kodi) where I've downloaded the Thai sub so the missus can watch and only comes up

with little boxes instead of proper Thai writing / subtitle. Its like the machine or TV cant display the Thai font. Well I know the TV can because quite often

we watch DVDs with Thai sub. Is there anything I can try?

Edited October 29, 2016 by Kenny202

[johng]

You need to install a Thai font for Kodi to use ...there is a thread on here somewhere where I posted a Thai font that works..unfortunately the forum search function is just as useful as it was before the recent "upgrade" try Googleing thaivisa.com johng kodi thai font

[johng]

[Kenny202]

16 hours ago, johng said:

You need to install a Thai font for Kodi to use ...there is a thread on here somewhere where I posted a Thai font that works..unfortunately the forum search function is just as useful as it was before the recent "upgrade" try Googleing thaivisa.com johng kodi thai font

 

I think I did find your post mate but wondering if you can give me a bit more detail on the process. When You say download the font do you mean download it directly into my Android box using google on the TV or should I download it on the computer and put it on a flash stick? I don't have an SD card in my Android box. Any help appreciated

[johng]

Does your Android box not have a SDCard socket ? if not does it have a USB socket ?

You need to download the arial font rar  file that I posted

(un rar the file first) and save the dont file to either sd card or usb memory stick. Then put memory card in your Android box

 

Then turn in tv and using the android box find the file browser and copy the font file from the memory card to the correct directory. In the other post you'll find possible directories to put the font

Reboot Android box and try  Thai subs

If no luck try other suggested directories

Also you may have to go into kodi system settings and change the font settings.

Edited October 30, 2016 by johng

[Kenny202]

Ok. Copied the file to SD card. Installed the SD card in the Android box and all good. Installed ES reader app and ticked show hidden files. When I go to change subtitle font on Kodi I normally have 2 selections. arial or teletext. I assumed the correct place to put my new arial.tff file would be in the directory original teletext and arial files were but have searched through the directories of my Android box and cant find any files with those names? I assumed I was replacing the original arial file with yours?

 

(Someone in another post suggested adding the new arial file with capital letters ie: ARIAL.tff?) 

 

I did a search on font and found three directories....all were to do with Skin confluence. Should there already be 2 tff files in a directory somewhere on my machine arial.tff and teletext.tff or am I missing something here?

 

By the way...am I just adding the arial.tff file or should I be creating a directory called "fonts" with the arial.tff file in that directory and copy the directory and file into area suggested? 

 

 

Edited October 30, 2016 by Kenny202

[williewolf]

What box are you have? I spent hours on this problem only to discover that I could not add fonts to the box I had and had to buy another

 

[Kenny202]

2 minutes ago, williewolf said:

What box are you have? I spent hours on this problem only to discover that I could not add fonts to the box I had and had to buy another

 

One of the small MQX (MXQ?) boxes you buy here for 1000 or so baht

[johng]

The font directory will depend upon which version of Kodi you are using sometimes its really hidden away. Google font folder for you kodi version.


From memory In kodi system settings select arial
You may have to reboot.

[williewolf]

Ok, go to es file explorer and copy the font. Then go to android/kodi/media and paste font there. When you open kodi you should have the choice in settings

Edited October 30, 2016 by williewolf

[Kenny202]

Well I've tried variations of all these things and nothing working. I added the arial.tff file to the skins confluence / fonts directory both in small and large caps. I also tried adding the files to the media directory as suggested above. In all cases went back to Kodi settings and can still only see 2 selections for subtitle font.....arial or teletext. Cant see my ARIAL file and in any case nothing seems to work. Have rebooted several times

[Anthony5]

You nedd to create subfolder named Fonts inside the Media folder.

 

In this folder you have to put the Garuda-AD-TT codec.

 

Arial.TTF which comes with Kodi doesn't support Thai font. The Windows Arial.TTF codec supports Thai font but is a paid codec and is like 20Mb in size.

 

 

Edited October 30, 2016 by Anthony5

[williewolf]

Ok, this is exactly what I did on my box , es file eplorer, copy fonts folder from sd card, open device, you will find numerous folders, click on sd card folder, click on android folder, click on data,click on org.xbmc kodi folder, click on files,click on kodi,click on mediawhen this opens paste fonts folder here. Back out of es explorer and open kodi go to system, video, subtitles and select your font from here

[johng]

The arial font that I posted

Will work with kodi.

Just found my notes about Thai fonts

Windows

copy airiel.ttf to /usr/share/kodi/addons/skin.confluence/fonts

Then in system/settings/apearance/skin change to ariel font and it should now display thai

no need to faf around with font.xml

in Raspbian XBMC

/home/pi/.xbmc-current/xbmc-bin/share/xbmc/addons/skin.confluence/fonts

for android

Android/data/org.xbmc.kodi/files/.kodi/media/fonts/

[johng]

Also check that your Thai subs are really Thai encoded text files, open one to test with test editor on a machine that you know can display Thai text and see if they are real Thai text or just gobldygoog...I've had some bad sub files before that where just gobldygoog whatever I tired to read them with.