Hi guys, this time I've got a problem and I need your help.

I have a subtitle where the italics are not shown correctly in gomplayer. It's this one:

http://subscene.com/english/State-of-Play/subtitle-248970.aspx

Usually, italics work fine with hundreds of films, but this time I see the tags on screen instead of the letters in italics.That is happing for the first time ever.

So it looks like this:

<i>Bla bla bla bla</i> instead of Bla bla bla bla.

The same subtitles are displayed fine with vobsub. I can't find an explanation for this.

It doesn't matter that I have 2 sets of opening and closing tags in a line, I changed that but no difference. With mayn other subtitles it isn't a problem either.

Any ideas?

Same with me, dude. I remember it happened once on a DVDRip (I think it was Donnie Darko) and yea, even your subs doesn't work on GOMPlayer, I guess..

A bug, perhaps? It works fine on STW..

Try this

Translation called the same name the film 

 Thanks so far guys.

alsaeede80, that's a nice workaround but I am interested in an explanation and a solution. Especially  because it's my subtitle that doesn't work. There must be a reason...

Nice tutorial by the way. How did you create this animated gif? It's cool, I want it. :-)

LOL, how did you create a long GIF with just 600 kb?

Anyways, I think it's the Direct VobSub problem so it's not GOM Player's fault. And Rogard, it's not just this subtitle. There was one subtitle also that had similar problems.

 But when I am using directVS/vobsub, everthing is fine. The problem must be with gomplayers internal subtitle handling.

Yeah, I believe that there are other problematic subtitles, but this one is the first one I've seen. I really want to find out what causes it. Maybe special characters somewhere in the subtitle? Weird escape sequences? Voodoo magic?! I have no clue. Everything looks as it should.

Hello rogard. The problem is the italics' closing tags. Use e.g. notepad to do a replace all "</i>" with "" (replace with nothing) and save. This fixes the problem for me.

Cheers