diff --git a/bazarr/get_series.py b/bazarr/get_series.py
index 4d3dd65c8..2a447ef69 100644
--- a/bazarr/get_series.py
+++ b/bazarr/get_series.py
@@ -165,9 +165,9 @@ def update_series():
             removed_series = list(set(current_shows_db_list) - set(current_shows_sonarr))
 
             for series in removed_series:
-                print(TableShows.delete().where(
+                TableShows.delete().where(
                     TableShows.tvdb_id == series
-                ).execute())
+                ).execute()
 
             logging.debug('BAZARR All series synced from Sonarr into database.')
 
diff --git a/bazarr/get_subtitle.py b/bazarr/get_subtitle.py
index c10450453..0eb2303d5 100644
--- a/bazarr/get_subtitle.py
+++ b/bazarr/get_subtitle.py
@@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ def download_subtitle(path, language, hi, forced, providers, providers_auth, sce
                                                      directory=fld,
                                                      chmod=chmod,
                                                      # formats=("srt", "vtt")
-                                                     path_decoder=None
+                                                     path_decoder=force_unicode
                                                      )
                 except Exception as e:
                     logging.exception('BAZARR Error saving Subtitles file to disk for this file:' + path)
@@ -429,7 +429,7 @@ def manual_download_subtitle(path, language, hi, forced, subtitle, provider, pro
                                                  directory=fld,
                                                  chmod=chmod,
                                                  # formats=("srt", "vtt")
-                                                 path_decoder=None)
+                                                 path_decoder=force_unicode)
             
             except Exception as e:
                 logging.exception('BAZARR Error saving Subtitles file to disk for this file:' + path)
diff --git a/libs/pyprobe/pyprobe.py b/libs/pyprobe/pyprobe.py
index 417961be2..b300965d5 100644
--- a/libs/pyprobe/pyprobe.py
+++ b/libs/pyprobe/pyprobe.py
@@ -176,8 +176,8 @@ class VideoFileParser:
             IOError: ffprobe execution failed
 
         """
-        command = [parser] + commandArgs + [inputFile.encode(getfilesystemencoding())]
         if PY3:
+            command = [parser] + commandArgs + [inputFile]
             completedProcess = subprocess.run(
                 command, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE, encoding="utf-8"
             )
@@ -187,6 +187,7 @@ class VideoFileParser:
                 )
             return completedProcess.stdout
         else:
+            command = [parser] + commandArgs + [inputFile.encode(getfilesystemencoding())]
             try:
                 completedProcess = subprocess.check_output(
                     command, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT