diff --git a/bazarr/list_subtitles.py b/bazarr/list_subtitles.py
index fb1ce476f..51c85ac15 100644
--- a/bazarr/list_subtitles.py
+++ b/bazarr/list_subtitles.py
@@ -438,10 +438,10 @@ def guess_external_subtitles(dest_folder, subtitles):
             subtitle_path = os.path.join(dest_folder, subtitle)
 
             # to improve performance, skip detection of files larger that 1M
-            if os.path.getsize(subtitle_path) > 1 * 1024 * 1024:
-                logging.debug("BAZARR subtitles file is too large to be text based. Skipping this file: " +
-                              subtitle_path)
-                continue
+            #if os.path.getsize(subtitle_path) > 1 * 1024 * 1024:
+            #    logging.debug("BAZARR subtitles file is too large to be text based. Skipping this file: " +
+            #                  subtitle_path)
+            #    continue
 
             with open(subtitle_path, 'rb') as f:
                 text = f.read()
@@ -452,11 +452,12 @@ def guess_external_subtitles(dest_folder, subtitles):
                 detector = Detector()
                 guess = detector.detect(text)
                 logging.debug('BAZARR detected encoding %r', guess)
-                text = text.decode(guess)
-            finally:
                 try:
-                    if bool(re.search(hi_regex, text)):
-                        subtitles[subtitle] = Language.rebuild(subtitles[subtitle], forced=False, hi=True)
-                except TypeError:
+                    text = text.decode(guess)
+                except:
+                    # text could not be decoded with guessed encoding, we wont try to detect HI fo rthis one
                     continue
+
+            if bool(re.search(hi_regex, text)):
+                subtitles[subtitle] = Language.rebuild(subtitles[subtitle], forced=False, hi=True)
     return subtitles