Adding --output srt --encoding utf8 worked perfectly in both English and Greek.

Rednoah, you are truly a god amongst men! Thank you for all your help, your quick and detailed responses, and all round nice-guyishness.

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The Java Swing look and feel is pretty cool - I learn something new every day. It didn't solve the GUI issue though - with any of the four themes applied, clicking the 'match' button still drops down the menu (and the menu is working because as I trace the mouse down the menu the cursor changes) but ...

Nice call. Well done. If I don't transcode the file to UTF8, the whole file downloads correctly.

This works for both English and Greek.

However, without transcoding to UTF8 the Greek subtitles are unreadable because the characters are incorrect.

Thank you for your help so far.

This is a problem that I have been working on troubleshooting for a few months - but finally decided to ask for help. Firstly, I use Manjaro Linux - rolling release, all up to date. Here are the filebot install details. It is licenced, but I have obscured the licence key filebot -script fn:sysinfo ...