How to watch movies with subtitles? : blog.OpenSubtitles.org

300 Responses to “How to watch movies with subtitles?”

Arale, on January 8th, 2008 at 5:09 pm Said:

My question might sound silly but I’ll try anyway: for most movies i can only found srt files named cd1/cd2. Now, my movies r often made of a single divx file, meaning the subtitles (’cd1′) will stop halfway through it. I’m using VLC and i can’t find any way to have the ‘cd2′ file to start from halfway through the file. Any solution to this issue, pls? Did I make myself any clear at all? I hope so…
Mario, on January 8th, 2008 at 5:49 pm Said:

What i often do is
a) open the srt file 2, select the content, copy and close.
b) open the srt file 1, click at the END of it, paste and SAVE.
c) Rename the file. (Example: If the video is movie,avi , your subtitle should be movie.srt (No number) )

That’s all.
Good luck.
MARIO
Khaba, on January 8th, 2008 at 7:07 pm Said:

Dear Developers,
OpenSubtitles.org is a good site to get any movei subtitle, but there is a problem for certain search results.
Same movei title with the same name in different languases eg.: Goal in hindi and in english bring out inappropaite results.Pliz rectify the issue…
Thanks a lot.

Khaba
Bangalore
India
Arale, on January 8th, 2008 at 7:29 pm Said:

Thank you for your help but i’m a bit lost: what about the synchronization? I mean, cd2 sub file will start at 00:00:01 or whatever, so how is it gonna time out halfway through the divx file?
Stan, on January 8th, 2008 at 8:52 pm Said:

Hi there

Download Subtitle Workshop - this will help you synchronize any sub-titles that are out of sync.
Johnvana, on January 9th, 2008 at 6:52 pm Said:

To Arale: try to find subtitle marked 1CD instead of CD1 and CD2 - (You cannot copy and paste SRT files - the time and numbering are not correct).
Use “Magic Sub Edit” version 0.70 wich allow you to sync the sub with the film- This program is an extended Vobsub. If you use AVIDVDburner for making DVD’s then you can merge more AVI’s and SRT’s ( Movie1.avi and movie2.srt - and movie2.avi and movie2.srt can be converted to one DVD and plays that way.
Good luck and greetings from Belgium
Johnvana
os, on January 9th, 2008 at 8:15 pm Said:

Khaba: Please write here URLs, because I don’t know what you mean.
Arale, on January 9th, 2008 at 11:16 pm Said:

Thank you so much, everybody, that was really helpful
dick white, on January 12th, 2008 at 7:24 pm Said:

on my mpc player i have no database window in options do you know how to fix this thank you.
os, on January 13th, 2008 at 2:45 pm Said:

yes, you have newer version of MPC, where they disable that function. Download it again from http://sourceforge.net/project/downloading.php?group_id=82303&use_mirror=mesh&filename=mpc2kxp6490.zip&20188002
dick white, on January 14th, 2008 at 12:37 am Said:

your a god send thank you very very much.
rafa, on January 16th, 2008 at 9:17 pm Said:

i am trying to put the subtitles on pirates of the caribean worl ends, i did what was on the video, but it wont show :/
Trevor, on January 16th, 2008 at 11:15 pm Said:

Is there a way I can embed the SRT file into the movie file and then burn it to a DVD so the subtitles can be read when watched on a DVD player or TV?
Ed, on January 17th, 2008 at 11:19 pm Said:

I was wondering if someone knows how to view the subtitles using your xbox 360 because I can’t do it that way and I’m talking about watching avi movies in the 360 not dvds
Ed, on January 17th, 2008 at 11:22 pm Said:

Trevor there’s a very good program that I use is call convertXtoDvd you can put an avi as many subs you want, create a menu,convert it to dvd and burn it into a dvd
Tony David, on January 18th, 2008 at 2:19 am Said:

I was wondering if I could use multiple subtitles (like english and dutch) in this way

My divxplayer will recognize the srt with the same name as the movie. Just wondering if there’s a way to use 2 different ones…
os, on January 18th, 2008 at 11:34 am Said:

Ed: I am not aware, if on xbox 360 is possible watch movie with text subtitles. On XBOX (old) we have the best media center - XBMC (use google:)
Tony: it is possible, just do following: rename subtitles.srt to subtitles.en.srt and subtitles.nl.srt
I will write this to article.
jackyx, on January 19th, 2008 at 1:00 pm Said:

Thank you very much. My girlfriend loves you. Greets from us.
WATEVER, on January 20th, 2008 at 5:09 am Said:

HELP ME PLS I try to copy and paste 2 sub files into 1 but it failed as the timing does not connects. SO file 1 is 0-49 min and file 2 is 0-1hr 4minutes which is CD1 and Cd2 sub. HOW to combine them? Rewrite every timing????
LM, on January 20th, 2008 at 8:14 pm Said:

hi,

can you recommend a good application for MAC to convert divx files to DVD that CAN include the subtitles?

than you so much,

LM
jeremy, on January 22nd, 2008 at 4:42 am Said:

is there a way that i can embed the srt file into the divx file and have be one so that i can make a data cd. so that when i am watching the movie the subtitles are there for it. i downloaded The Kingdom from fxg and the subtitles were there in the movie. i had this same problem with Eastern Promises and Pans Labyrinth.
luke, on January 23rd, 2008 at 2:15 am Said:

With VLC media player I didn’t have to rename the downloaded subtitles file or put it in the same folder as the movie. I downloaded subtitles as WinRAR zip files, extracted the file and just put .srt on the end of the extracted file. With VLC just use file - open file and you you will see a browse function which you can use to search for the movie file and which can be on your PC or on a DVD and below you will see subtitle options. Put a tick in the box and click on settings and you can then use the browse function for the subtitles file.
Emre, on January 23rd, 2008 at 3:34 am Said:

@jeremy, you can only do it with a Matroska muxer and your movie’s extension will be .mkv . Download MKVtoolnix, its easy to use, you can add multiple subtiltes, audios, merge or split files.
@WATEVER, use Subtilte Workshop, free and easy to use. You can join subtitles with that, and correct time codes easily or you can use BSPlayer Subtitle Editor. Synchronize both subtitles to your film and copy and paste the second to the first one.
demyxpro, on January 23rd, 2008 at 10:34 pm Said:

Well.. Im having a big broplem… I dont have/I cant download ( I dont know why!) java player so I cant watch any videos.. so im in trouble cuz I dont know how to use subtitles and there aint no way to get that info.. so could anyone help me??
If you cant help me I’ll just find my brothers friend and drag him here to take care of things…
ryan, on January 24th, 2008 at 5:00 am Said:

I download Persepolis, then downloaded the subtitles. I have a Mac and use MPlayer for this video. The subtitles aren’t showing up. Why is that?
Johnvana, on January 24th, 2008 at 12:39 pm Said:

To Watever:you can’t copy and paste 2 subtitles files to make one.( I suppose you work with a PC and not a Mac) Use Sub MAGIC Editer ( I do) with this program you can open the first SRT sub file and then APPEND the second SRT file and it works.You can also sync the timing with the AVI film and change it if necessary.Program is 2.4Mb version 0.7 and it works 5 times better than Vobsub.
Success! Johnvana
me, on January 24th, 2008 at 5:54 pm Said:

You are a God . thanks for help!!!
toomas, on January 24th, 2008 at 9:55 pm Said:

well, I downloaded dr. Strangelove estonian subtitled, and what I got was a .txt format file, no srt or something, I even tried to rename it but nothing, my videoplayer dont find it. I’m using TOTEM
icemanx, on January 26th, 2008 at 11:34 am Said:

Use subtitle workshop to edit the subtitle.
shashank, on January 26th, 2008 at 1:56 pm Said:

sir,
I am not able to watch subtitles using the way you suggested through above video.
please suggest me the proper way.
I use windows media player, mpclassic.
harsha, on January 26th, 2008 at 8:04 pm Said:

i have downloaded a few subtitle tracks and i use vlc player….the problem is either the subtitles do not synchronize with the dialouges going on in the movie….i hav tried the delay function but then also it is not working….what to do?
jeremy, on January 27th, 2008 at 12:37 am Said:

@Emre, so after i do this will i be able to watch the movie on my divx/dvd player and the subtitles will be at the the bottom of the screen whenever there is foreign language? i usaually put up to six movies on one dvd+r disc. then watch them on my divx/dvd player and not my computer.
xero, on January 29th, 2008 at 5:14 pm Said:

hey . i tried to do as your mini intro. it doesnt work! has it something to do with the windows vista??
os, on January 29th, 2008 at 5:41 pm Said:

xero, here works everything perfect, try to play it under other windows. I am sure it works under Vista too.
HUSSEIN, on January 29th, 2008 at 10:52 pm Said:

hello every one ,
please help me i can’t download any move so if any one knows how can do it .please send me .
(hus705sein@hotmail.co.uk0
jay, on January 30th, 2008 at 10:03 pm Said:

renaming the file exactly as the movie worked for me was having problems with Ichi the killer cause it had (eng)(subs)in the file name got rid of it and IT WORKED GREAT…thanks man
liamsi, on February 1st, 2008 at 6:52 am Said:

I can only view DIVX Movies subtitle with VLC media player and not Classic Media Player, DIVX palyer, Window Media Player. I hope to get some tips soon.

Thank You

Liams
jensen, on February 1st, 2008 at 9:31 am Said:

i’ve downloaded 30 days of Night in 2 files (cd1 and cd2). problem is that i could only find 1 file of subtitle for it. how do i use the same subtitle files to sync for both cd1 and cd2 movie?
Damir, on February 2nd, 2008 at 3:49 am Said:

one titl for Pin…(1988)

http://rapidshare.com/files/88471637/Pin.1988.DVDRip.XviD-DDF.zip.html

ZIP PASS: damir-beograd@hotmail.com
madscience, on February 2nd, 2008 at 4:33 am Said:

why does the talking comes first before the subtitle?..
gaetan, on February 2nd, 2008 at 7:23 pm Said:

Hi,

Is there somebody who knows if it s possible to read a normal DVD (not divX) and put the subtittles.
We just got “pride and prejudice” in DVD but there is no subtittles and there english is kind of hard to follow.
Do you know how i can do?
Thanks.
mrsdoyle, on February 3rd, 2008 at 8:50 am Said:

I transfer/convert all avi to mpeg2 format for dvd. Can anyone tell me how can I get the subtitles as well?

Thanks
benny51, on February 3rd, 2008 at 10:42 pm Said:

You can look on the internet for subtitles.Just search for subtitles and then download to the movie file.Subscene is one such site.You can then burn them with convertx.
Oscar, on February 5th, 2008 at 10:02 am Said:

Hola oie muchas gracias! si me sirvio =D saludos
John Slagle, on February 5th, 2008 at 8:26 pm Said:

luke, on January 23rd, 2008 at 2:15 am Said:

With VLC media player I didnâ€™t have to rename the downloaded subtitles file or put it in the same folder as the movie. I downloaded subtitles as WinRAR zip files, extracted the file and just put .srt on the end of the extracted file. With VLC just use file - open file and you you will see a browse function which you can use to search for the movie file and which can be on your PC or on a DVD and below you will see subtitle options. Put a tick in the box and click on settings and you can then use the browse function for the subtitles file.

Thank you Luke, it worked perfectly. The VLC is the best player.
Paarth, on February 9th, 2008 at 3:12 pm Said:

i got a dvd of Three Colours Blue. Unfortunately i dint check for the subtitles and they’re missing.

I downloaded the english subtitles from here and followed the instructions, everything is fine but THEY’RE AREN’T IN SYNC!

H.E.L.P! S.O.S
Dave, on February 9th, 2008 at 6:09 pm Said:

Is there a way to get English subtitles JUST for the Russian speaking parts of Eastern Promises? I don’t want to have them on when they are speaking English. I’m using VLC.

Please help.

Thank You
Debadri, on February 9th, 2008 at 9:11 pm Said:

can someone plz tell me that if only srt files are supported in dvd player? or sub smi files are also supported in dvd players? thanx in advance
Tharindu, on February 12th, 2008 at 9:34 am Said:

GUYS!
you can set the delay of ur sub files by using “DivxLand”
Njy!!!
nani1984, on February 14th, 2008 at 12:59 am Said:

thanks
costel, on February 18th, 2008 at 11:44 pm Said:

hy everyone,i would like to know if there is a program that can convert a dvd file into a avi. file.I already got “Captivity” in dvd file and i can”t burn it to a dvd disc.Thanks from Italy.
Shikhar, on February 25th, 2008 at 8:12 am Said:

Hi everyone, I am watching Talvisota which has cd1 and cd2. The subtitles for cd2 start with the start of cd2 but those subtitles are meant for the frame which comes at around 4 minute. I have downloaded subtitles workshop but am unable to synchronize. How can i create a delay of 4 min so that subtitles are synchronized.
Thanx
xua, on February 26th, 2008 at 4:34 am Said:

how can do: avi+srt->avi, that is to embed subtitles into and existing avi file… I realy dont want to get a mkt file…

thanks
theo rizos, on February 28th, 2008 at 1:43 pm Said:

hi..about adding subtitles on avi..
1) i download 2 parts(CDs) of a movie.avi
2)i downoladed 1cd str file for the same movie.avi
3)i renamed the str file like the 1st movie CD
it worked perfect( movie cd 1.avi —-movie cd 1 str)
but i cant add subtitles to the 2nd CDmovie.avi…i tried to rename it with the same way like the 1st CD…but i get the 1st CDs subtitles ….what should i do ?? i only have one STR FILE..but 2PARTS (CDs) of the avi movie…thank you
deaconblues, on February 29th, 2008 at 6:31 pm Said:

The 25-second lag:

My movie file has the first 25 seconds repeated. so the subtitles aint syncin’. Any ideas on how to get over this? I don’ want to change all the time !! And I dont have a clipper too…
chilliam, on March 2nd, 2008 at 11:33 am Said:

i’m trying it for hours!! it doesnt works
ca somebody explain me in different steps what i have to do
Amirhossein Hadian, on March 3rd, 2008 at 3:29 pm Said:

Hi,
You can download this codec and enjoy your lovely Windows Media Player with any format you want. Just search in google “CCCP” and download it. It is about 6MB.
yannis, on March 4th, 2008 at 9:22 pm Said:

I have tried to get it work with the movie â€œAmerican Gangsterâ€ and Greek subtitles from http://subscene.com/American-Gangster/subtitles-69885.aspx

subtitles show up but is not in Greekâ€¦..seem like â€œchineseâ€ to meâ€¦like something with the encoding is wrong. Tried to use subs downloaded from else where ,same problem.Used English subs,shows up OK. Any ideas whats wrong? I hate my new Vista and am afraid that is something wrong with themâ€¦obviuosly am not a computer expert..
I have used MPC and subdownloader, didnt find any Greek subs,I downloaded 2 different subs from 2 different websitesâ€¦..and the subs show up as some kind of wrong unicode or encoding. Same thing when try to play with VLC. Please help me.
ange, on March 5th, 2008 at 11:49 am Said:

iv tried all the above stated ways on view subtitiles using VLC…..but it still dosnt work….help plsssssssssssssssssssss
hoobastank, on March 5th, 2008 at 1:54 pm Said:

hi everyone. is there anybody know how to make subtitles for downloaded movie?
caroline, on March 7th, 2008 at 10:31 am Said:

okay. so i looked at the vid above which confused me more. and was playing around with it and somehow i got it.. hopefully this will help other people, but i downloaded the subtitle and saved it to desktop and put it in the same folder as the movie and opened vlc, clicked open file, browse. found the movie. and then clicked use a subtitle file, browse. found the subtitle location. and ok. so far its working
Trish, on March 10th, 2008 at 4:28 am Said:

I am hoping you know something about vobsubs submux?! Why is it that I can only successfully mux subtitles to avi files on some movies?? Sometimes after I hit mux it does nothing but save a 1 second file and I am doing the exact same thing and the same types of files as I do when it actually works and I can see that submux is working because all these numbers randomize where you hit mux. I am so frustrating because I have a few movies that I can not mux subtitles onto therefore I cannot convert them to dvd and watch them. I really hope that you can help me and would be very much appreciative.
batgirl, on March 10th, 2008 at 6:04 pm Said:

re:hoobastank: you can download them separately. search video name subtitles or go to one of the sites listed in other comments.

re:yannis: you could try Jubler. it’s a free subtitle editing program in java (so it’s good for Windows, Mac OSX, Linux, etc.). It advertises that it supports every encoding supported by java, so you could open it in that and see if changing the encoding (save as) is what you need. Otherwise, the subs you downloaded may have just been mislabeled.

re: deaconblues, paarth, harsha, etc: you can use the same program to easily shift subs as much time as you want till they’re in sync.
re: theo rizos, jensen, etc: or to join or split subtitle files in two to match your video files.
re: people still trying to use WMP: try VLC, some players just don’t support ’soft’ subtitles.
batgirl, on March 10th, 2008 at 8:04 pm Said:

How to video of Jubler (to edit subs): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rl_8hk6otK8
How to video of avidemux (a bit harder, can burn subs to video or other effects): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aC7G4EkYFpk
both are available on all (modern) platforms free.
ferdi, on March 12th, 2008 at 11:13 am Said:

hello.
may ask for some questions. i have movie pay it forward 2000 with format video avi. but there no subtitle. can you explain to me how i can this movie with indonesia language subtitle. cause i’m from indonesia. please can you tell me how ?
thanks before, i hope you explain to me at : m4a1asgcarbine@yahoo.co.id
Helga, on March 14th, 2008 at 8:41 pm Said:

Hello. I download the subtitle but it plays in wrong time..the subtitle appear later then the sound..what should i do?please help(sorry if I write with mistakes but i’m hungarian:))
pela, on March 15th, 2008 at 11:56 am Said:

Yo, Got CDI + CD2 prob, im a mac, cant find sub magic editor or subtitle workshop for mac, how can i sync the 2 subtitle discs to the movie? If it was one file I have no problem. HELP!
Navo, on March 15th, 2008 at 7:16 pm Said:

I wanna ask a question.
i have a movie SAW 4 in .VOB formats(5parts)
n i want to add subtitle to it. Hw can i do this?
Claudia, on March 16th, 2008 at 11:07 pm Said:

Im new at this! So can i have step by step please!!! I need someones help!! If you can email me it will be great! claudani_26@hotmail.com!
Conor, on March 17th, 2008 at 12:48 am Said:

Can anyone help me, I have rendition in ISO format and i am trying to get it to play so that there are subtitles for the Arabic parts ONLY. I downloaded, renamed, put them in the same folder, selected with VLC and still nothing or out of sync! driving me mental
Conor, on March 17th, 2008 at 4:03 pm Said:

Oh never mind i just played in a dvd player and i can select the other english subtitle track. new to this
dilip, on March 17th, 2008 at 4:10 pm Said:

i added the subtitle your way on how-to..but the timings are missing.how to put the correct timings..please reply as soon as u can
Count, on March 19th, 2008 at 6:00 pm Said:

Sometimes when I put a downloaded subtitle file i the movie folder and start the movie, it appears with a green line diagonal to the screen. It constantly stays there throughout the movie. Can anybody help how to fix this? I’m know well how to put subtitles on a movie but this problem is out of my reach, can anybody suggets something? Thanks in advance.
Mike, on March 23rd, 2008 at 10:21 pm Said:

How can i delay a srt-subtitle file.

Is there any command in the *.srt-file syntax?

Perhaps exist a sommand like ” -00:00:40,000″
or something else?
Mike, on March 23rd, 2008 at 10:23 pm Said:

a command like “delay -00:00:40,000″ ?
Jeff Benjamin, on March 24th, 2008 at 3:10 am Said:

In every forum I go to, people explain how to do this and that… and it’s always for PCs. Macs are different - and I can’t get certain subtitles to work.

I use the VCL Player. If I play an .MKV film, with subtitles (which have the .ass extension), it works fine. If I play an .AVI film, with subtitles (which have the .sub extension), it works fine. BUT, if I play an .AVI film, with subtitles (which have the .srt extension), it does NOT work. In short, subtitles seem to work, EXCEPT for those with the .srt extension. Again, I’m using a Mac. Does anyone know what the problem is? I know how to use the VCL Player and open subtitles, but .srt does not work on the Mac version of VCL.
Jeff Benjamin, on March 24th, 2008 at 3:25 am Said:

That’s VLC Player…
mike smith, on March 24th, 2008 at 11:11 pm Said:

hi. i use widows media player and real player. is it possible for me to watch a movie in either of these two players with subtitles? pease guide me. i m very new to this. if its not possible to watch the movie with subtitles, can i just download the movie script/ actual subtitles from any website in ms-word or .pdf format? anyone who can help me, please contact me at rave2go@yahoo.com. a million thanks!
Brian, on March 26th, 2008 at 1:08 pm Said:

I can’t figure a way to attach the subtitle file, or, perhaps the right word is imbed the subtitle file into my avi movie.

I can play any movie on my computer with subtitles -but I want to burn a Cd so I can watch the movie on my divx / cd / dvd / player that is attached to my TV

I tried using Santa 4 but it didn’t work. It said it was going to include the subtitle and asked for its addition -but didn’t include it in the output file.

Any ideas
Helly, on March 27th, 2008 at 8:48 am Said:

for anyone who wants eastern promises subtitles for the russian part only go here:)

http://rapidshare.com/files/102698357/Eastern_Promises_-_English_for_russian_only.zip.html
Michelle, on March 27th, 2008 at 11:06 am Said:

Hi can someone please paste the link to download “subtitle workshop”. The ones i have found on google dont allow me to download it for some strange reason. thanks in advance!
honeychelles, on March 27th, 2008 at 12:09 pm Said:

hi every1,
i use Nero Vision 4 to burn movies onto DVD’s and sometimes the movie that i add to burn audio goes out of sync. Is there something i can do to fix this? as some movies i add to nero vision 4 to burn work perfectly fine its only some movies that dont sync with the audio.
Please help. thanks
Stevep, on March 29th, 2008 at 5:22 am Said:

Hi people.

I have just downloaded “Anthony Zimmer” and the Anthony Zimmer subtitles file, and i have down everything thing the video had said (renamed the file so it matched the movie name exactly) but it does not seem to work…I have put them both into the same folder and opened the movie file with Vlc, but still no subtitles….plz can anyone help?
Mess, on March 30th, 2008 at 7:45 am Said:

For players I normally use the Gom Player, if you are having problems with subtitles at any given time, make sure it’s the correct format (.srt) and that it’s a written document.
Also make sure the subtitles are the exact same name as the movie, or else your player will not pick it up and you will not get subtitles for your movies, also make sure they are both saved in the same folder.

Make sure you’re using a proper player and have the right extensions to play the movie. Some times if I cannot play the movie it’s because I am missing certain codecs in which case I downloaded a full codec pack which helped with certain movies and subtitles. I also use FFDshow for extra codecs to play certain movies that will not play or work properly on my computer.

But i have done everything that is in this little blog for the past few years and it has yet to fail me, i suggest looking into what your computer might be missing if you are having problems with playing subs and movies on your computer.
Stevep, on March 30th, 2008 at 2:27 pm Said:

Hi, thx for the reply…

I’m pretty sure i have done everything correct, but im not quite sure what you mean by “and that itâ€™s a written document.” Here’s a picture of the folder which contains, both the subtitles file and the Movie…Can you spot anything wrong with it?

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c260/stevepro1/Desktop.jpg

Also, if that is correct, i’ll try downloading new codecs, can you possibly reccomend me somewhere in which i can download them?

Thx in advance.
Stevep, on March 30th, 2008 at 2:28 pm Said:

Btw, i use VLC…
mati162c, on April 5th, 2008 at 6:22 pm Said:

What should I do if my sub aren’t in srt. but in txt.???
Is there anything I can do???
Btw, sub i downloaded from opensubtitles.org were in txt.
Cpt. Cranky, on April 6th, 2008 at 4:54 am Said:

mati162c, rename the txt to srt!
diana, on April 6th, 2008 at 2:09 pm Said:

costel:
here is a program that can convert a dvd file into a avi. file:

http://rapidshare.com/files/37803073/Winavi_Serial.rar.html
ssttuuky, on April 6th, 2008 at 5:21 pm Said:

Costel: I have been successful with converting of DVDR files (vobs) into avi format using both Divx and Xvid compression using AutoGK. In the past you had to learn 5 programs and was quite complicated. What AutoGK does is install and run these various programs for you. Turning the task into a one click soluction (much like using convertXtoDVD for the opposite direction). Note that converting a full movie takes 3-6 hours depending on the computer (where the the opposite convert using convertXtoDVD is 45 min - 1 1/2 hours). AutoGK is opensource. Do a google search for it and visit its forums if you have any questions.
Stevep, on April 6th, 2008 at 7:10 pm Said:

Can anyone plz help me with my problem pleaseeee
deft, on April 7th, 2008 at 7:10 am Said:

When I try adding Chinese subtitles to a movie, it shows up as a set of weird characters and not the actual chinese characters I’m hoping for. Is there something I didn’t do properly or another program I need? Will the same problem occur if I put it in a DVD player?
yaser shermini, on April 8th, 2008 at 1:02 pm Said:

hello and thanks for attention
i need season 1 of friends (1994)
what can i do?
rroos, on April 8th, 2008 at 7:57 pm Said:

i can”t figure it out .can you tell me step for step what to do for getting subtitels with my movie?
oguh82, on April 9th, 2008 at 5:45 pm Said:

I have done like ur mini intro shows, but i cant see the subs in my movie, please explain me better.
Lisanne, on April 10th, 2008 at 7:11 pm Said:

Can anyone tell me how to burn these two items on a dvd? The movie Ã¡nd the subtitles.

Thanks!
mike, on April 11th, 2008 at 12:57 pm Said:

i’m having probs with subtitles etc but mainly because vlc has installed in german. I get an option of languages, choose english, but still when i open a file with vlc the complete taskbar is in german. Any tips? cheers
mike, on April 11th, 2008 at 1:02 pm Said:

sorry i should add that my pc runs on german windows
Martin, on April 13th, 2008 at 3:48 am Said:

Thanks - got my subtitles working - a very useful guide for inexperienced users (like myself;-) on how to get these files associated with each other.
aace, on April 13th, 2008 at 7:22 am Said:

I am using quick time to view movies in a MAC (OS X). I followed your directions for getting subtitles but they are not running with the movie. What can i do? Thanks for your help.
polin, on April 14th, 2008 at 2:47 am Said:

Ok thats good but how i put subtitles at a tv show?i downloaded subtitles for heroes and there is a differend file for each episode how am gonna put the subtitles?????????????
Samantha, on April 17th, 2008 at 9:44 pm Said:

I have been trying to add English subs to the french flick “Hors de Prix” and even though I’ve changed the file names to be the same, it still doesn’t work. Is there a specific video program I need for this to work properly? It’s really frustrating…any help would be great. Thanks.
Samantha, on April 17th, 2008 at 10:03 pm Said:

Okay, I figured out that problem, so ignore my previous post. However, if I want to burn a DVD of that movie, can I do it so that the subtitles play automatically? How do you do that?
Nattaporn, on April 18th, 2008 at 5:38 pm Said:

Dear All,

I am a new member in this site. Now, I got a problem that I cannot put the subtitle on the movie.

Please advise how to put the subtitle on the movie?

All of your help will be great.

Thanks
Nattaporn
ohoh, on April 19th, 2008 at 5:15 pm Said:

I follow the step in the “How to watch movie with subtitle?” guide above but doesn’t work out!

Can some body help me? Do I miss any step?

Do I have to burn to CD before adding subtitle?

I’m new member, please help!

Thanks a lot
nick, on April 21st, 2008 at 11:00 pm Said:

forgive me for being so stupid but i downloaded a film, then downloaded the subtitle, what now?!?!

what is a srt file?

do you have to put them both in a winRAR archive and wait for them to forget their differences. Please help me…

everyone here seems to have gotten a hell of a lot further than me!!
aussieaim01, on April 23rd, 2008 at 6:52 am Said:

Hi all. I am very new to subs etc so please bear with me and hopefully it won’t hurt (me) too much. I downloaded the subs for War, changed the name to title of movie and I now have subs. YAY! BUT is there a way that the subs ONLY come up for the non-english speaking parts of the movie? I have them coming up even when it’s english speaking. No big deal I’m sure for many but I am one of those OCD and everything as you would know has to be perfect. Sorry if I sound like a pain or what I’m asking would be classed as menial.
mike, on April 25th, 2008 at 11:23 pm Said:

all you can do is download subs from another source and hope its set up how you want it. Most movies should come with automatic subs for non english parts(so just disable subs)
mike, on April 27th, 2008 at 1:32 pm Said:

or get a suitable program & edit the subtitles yourself
Markus, on April 28th, 2008 at 4:56 pm Said:

Just use this program

VobSub

search for this program and u will see the legends on MP ;O
sean, on April 30th, 2008 at 9:07 am Said:

your fucking subtitle bullshit sucks, its gives me the subtitles for the language I already fucking speak, when it comes to the language I don’t speak it’s 5 minutes fucking behind. Thanks for fucking nothing.
Beneth, on May 5th, 2008 at 8:07 pm Said:

can anyone please give me the link or torrent to download the “Rendez-vous”
Beneth, on May 5th, 2008 at 8:08 pm Said:

can anyone please give me the link or torrent to download the movie “Rendez-vous”
Motadiputado, on May 6th, 2008 at 7:10 pm Said:

Hi everyone! I am downloading DVD movies but I do not always find the subtitles for Spanish (my language)included in the DVD. Could you recommend a way to download those subtitles and tell me how to do in order to add them to the movie?
Thanks!
Arben Myrtaj, on May 8th, 2008 at 6:36 pm Said:

OMG! I could never think it would be so easy. Thanx a ton, u saved the day. Just did what u said and I could see the results. Thanx again.
Morno, on May 10th, 2008 at 2:39 am Said:

Hi, is it possible to watch a DVD and to have Web-downloaded subtitles attached to it? Do I have to rip the DVD to a file before?
kaaskop, on May 10th, 2008 at 1:44 pm Said:

@ Morno

Yes that is possible
soanki, on May 11th, 2008 at 2:56 pm Said:

good
esh, on May 11th, 2008 at 6:08 pm Said:

I’m having problems too. i downloaded the film, “3 needles” (.avi file), and was able to get a .srt subtitle work with my vlc player/mac version.

PROBLEM:
how come .idx files works [and is in synch] well with 3 needles?
.srt files does not synch with the dialogues in 3 needles! it’ appears either late or too early before the dialogue. im using a mac. how do i solve this? i need english subs for 3 needles!

PLEASE HELP! =’(
Komoi, on May 13th, 2008 at 10:22 pm Said:

Thanks lot
JOHN, on May 14th, 2008 at 10:24 am Said:

I have a problem. I cant find a text file with is divided into 2CD

So i copy and paste the 2nd part of the dvd subtitiles into a new notepad divide and saved as the title of the 2nd CD.

But the subtitles does not appear for the i copied?
Lauren, on May 14th, 2008 at 12:20 pm Said:

Hi, I have read all the comments and tired all the suggestions but still unable to get the sub file working.

There is a sub file but it just does not seem to work http://www.mininova.org/com/1096766

The .avi file is in the same folder that has the .srt file and I renamed them to be the same. I am using VLC. It plays fine just no subs, could you shed any light on to what I am doing wrong?

Thanks!! Lauren
Ave, on May 20th, 2008 at 11:29 am Said:

If you are using VLC, check Video > Subtitles Track > Track 1 is selected, its seems to be working with me.
Ave, on May 20th, 2008 at 11:43 am Said:

To esh,

Stan on Jan-08 has a suggestion, see if it will work for you.
headie, on May 24th, 2008 at 3:49 pm Said:

hey. to anyone who can help me and is bothered to open up this rapidshare link (i appreciate the help, if any). have a look at this first:
http://rs320.rapidshare.com/files/117269443/fk.bmp

that is the result of a movie i play in windows media player classic and real player. it is an avi file. in windows media player 11 it doesn’t even play.

this only happens when there are subs in the folder. if the file is just on its own without srt files, it’s perfectly normal.
if anyone knows what’s wrong and what i can do with this, please help!!! thanks so much peoples
headie, on May 24th, 2008 at 3:51 pm Said:

by the way, all the sub names are fine (the same as the movie) and the subs are displayed, it’s just screwed up on the player screen
Sreeraj, on May 26th, 2008 at 11:41 pm Said:

THE MOST SIMPLEST WAY TO PLAY A SUBTITLE FILE IN VLC PLAYER (One of the best players ever, plays almost any kind of file without any extra third party codecs, download it from here - http://www.videolan.org/) IS -

> Go to the folder where the video file is present.
> Right click on the file. Select ‘Open with’ option and under it VLC Player.
> Once the video starts playing, just drag the .srt or any Subtitle file you have and drop it inside the VLC player that is playing the Movie. (Dragging means, right clicking the mouse button on .srt file, then without releasing the right click button pull the file into the VLC player and then release the right click button)

This is the simplest way to do it. No need to rename the subtitle file into the movie name or even keep the subtitle file in the same directory as movie. Infact the movie can be in one folder and subtitle file in another with different names and it would still work.

Comeon guys, now if you tell you aren’t able to still play the subtitle file then it would be insane. This is as simple as it can get. About out of sync subtitle files, you can use one of the softwares above and fix it, or the simplest way is find some other subtitle file. I’m sure you’ll find one that would sync to the movie you have
Renald, on May 27th, 2008 at 3:03 am Said:

this helped for the viewing part what about the burning part so I can view it on my dvd player cause there is times where I would head to a friends house and bringing a dvd is easier then a hardrive for them
Sreeraj, on May 27th, 2008 at 8:41 pm Said:

HOW TO INTEGRATE THE SUB-TITLE PERMANENTLY INTO THE MOVIE FILE FOR PLAYING IN VCD OR DVD PLAYERS??

Well I guess you’ll find a step by step solution for this here -

http://hazexp.googlepages.com/avisubtitle
lanZ, on May 29th, 2008 at 1:38 pm Said:

how to disappears the green line on the screen.
this green line appear when i put the subtitle..
Sreeraj, on May 29th, 2008 at 8:47 pm Said:

I never hav encountered any green line ever while playing any subtitles. Try using Video Lan Player (VLC Player - http://www.videolan.org/).
BettyBoop, on May 30th, 2008 at 2:51 am Said:

Hi, Can anyone help telling me how can I burn the movie on a DVD with the subtitles?
Thankyouuuuuu
Mara, on May 30th, 2008 at 2:56 pm Said:

Hi,
is there a way to put subtitles bigger? When i watch the movie in the Divx player they look so small.

Thanks a lot,

Mara
Syaoran, on June 1st, 2008 at 8:18 am Said:

Where can i get the sub magic editor??? Can someone give the link…Plzz…..

Syaoran
rain, on June 2nd, 2008 at 4:40 pm Said:

I have a 0.8.6f VLC player. I tried to rename the .srt same with the movie file. But when I played it in the VLC player it doesn’t work. Can you help me please.
falkor, on June 4th, 2008 at 2:34 am Said:

i watch divx movies on Playstation 3.
but can i put subtitels on my Playstation 3?
mm, on June 4th, 2008 at 11:04 pm Said:

i have this movie and i know how to put subtitles but every subtitles i have tried is kind of wrong for that movie. all subtitles i have tried starts too early, you know. like that line what they say in that movie, has already been if you follow subtitles. i would like to have at least english subtitles, otherwise i dont understand very much about that movie.
sorry, i dont know did i make my problem clear at all, i’m not very good in english.
Edwin, on June 5th, 2008 at 12:41 am Said:

Thank YOU LUKE! I was blundering a bit cuz i cudnt figured it out, then this came up
“With VLC media player I didnâ€™t have to rename the downloaded subtitles file or put it in the same folder as the movie. I downloaded subtitles as WinRAR zip files, extracted the file and just put .srt on the end of the extracted file. With VLC just use file - open file and you you will see a browse function which you can use to search for the movie file and which can be on your PC or on a DVD and below you will see subtitle options. Put a tick in the box and click on settings and you can then use the browse function for the subtitles file.”
I suggest to those who still dont get it, to use VLC. Simple as 1,2,3. Thank you also to the website for the subs and tutorial.
irmelin ness, on June 8th, 2008 at 10:15 pm Said:

When i have a mac and i have VLC player, why dose it not work? can someone tell me how to do it?
amphon, on June 11th, 2008 at 2:00 pm Said:

thanks for every one . especially Edwin and Sreeraj
christos, on June 15th, 2008 at 1:39 am Said:

I often download greek subs for my movies and on my pc work fine. But on a friend’s pc the greek subs appear as arabic,chinese etc and when i say “appear” i mean in every program i use for example bs player, gom player, windows player. Can you help me?
bee97, on June 20th, 2008 at 4:48 pm Said:

I use mpc player with k-lite codec and it works just fine for me.
1. Rename the subtitle exactly the same with the video name and add .srt at the end of the name (just copy & paste) even the file still in text document.
2. Make sure they are in the same folder

and u can watch your video with the sub.

Thanks for the tips! Now I can watch La Femme Nikita with eng sub perfectly.
Nasrin, on June 24th, 2008 at 1:29 pm Said:

Hi , how r u ?
there is a movies i DLed it .. i can only open it with Real one player , when i renamed the sub. it doesnt show the subtitels .what show i do? is it bcz of my vidoe player .. is it any other player that can open RealAudio / RealVideo VBR files ??? i tried it with VLC , MPC , but still didnt work …
plz help me .. tnx
Boosh live show subtitles « BurntBroccoliBlog, on June 24th, 2008 at 11:19 pm Said:

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jason, on June 26th, 2008 at 3:37 am Said:

Ok

Ive put the subtitle file and the movie in the same folder.

Doesnt work. What am I doing wrong??
jason, on June 26th, 2008 at 3:54 am Said:

GOTCHAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mustve been a corrupt file. Thanks boss.
jason, on June 26th, 2008 at 4:03 am Said:

I downloaded DirectVobSub.

Thats mustve been it.
chris, on June 29th, 2008 at 6:19 am Said:

i was wondering, if i have a version of the movie and the subtitles are out of sync how do i delay them??
plz reply to my email if possible
chris_dasca@hotmail.com
Jacobian, on June 29th, 2008 at 7:19 am Said:

I want to use arabic subtitiles
when I played the movie, the characters are showing in arabic but each one is seen alone (are not attached to each other)
is there any way to fix it ?
thanks in advance
hercules, on June 29th, 2008 at 10:12 pm Said:

excelsior
pcbboyz, on July 1st, 2008 at 6:00 am Said:

thankz bro. after u teach me how to watch movie with subtitle using MPC, i did not waste my money to buy CD or DVD any more….
(^_^)
Ivan, on July 4th, 2008 at 5:04 pm Said:

Is there a way to embed the subs into the avi without affecting the video quality of the file? I’ve tried adding the subs to the avi, then converting to dvd with convertx, later ripping it to divx but the end product is less than the original video.
Dee, on July 5th, 2008 at 7:41 pm Said:

I am desperately trying to get subs to work. I watched video above and did what was instructed but what happens is that movie is blank upon play back (no sound, no picture). If I delete the srt file I am able to watch the movie but it is back to square one no subtitles. Why? Oh I am using Windows Media 11.
aisha, on July 6th, 2008 at 6:05 pm Said:

I’ve a big problem..I want to burn my avi films WITH SUBTITLES on dvd or cd(if one dvix) disc,BUT how can i do that? have i need a special program? If yes, where can i find it? please if somebody know it, help me and write it step by step…
PLZ help me people…
and sorry for the mistakes i just learning English..:)
Duwin, on July 10th, 2008 at 2:05 pm Said:

Anyone know how to join subtitle(.srt) with movie?
zedman, on July 12th, 2008 at 7:25 am Said:

I’ve downloaded “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Romanian movie), and I’ve tried countless times to get the subtitles to work - no good.I use KM player, and usually have no probs. Any help?
Nubi, on July 12th, 2008 at 12:59 pm Said:

Is my question how I can do for for the inscriptions to the same rhythm as the movie? Since my film begins but the inscriptions do not go to the same time as the movie. I wanted to know how I can do that. it answers me in my mail
Nubi, on July 12th, 2008 at 1:09 pm Said:

be able to use me? I want to put subtitles in the same rhythm as the film advances but it does not walk because my film begins more quickly and subtitles do not advance all at once. How can I make so that it advances all at once???
Nubi, on July 12th, 2008 at 1:13 pm Said:

My subtitles are there avanÃ§e in comparison with the film how I make for in order????
Saad, on July 14th, 2008 at 6:09 pm Said:

I have BLOOD DIAMOND of 900 mb and the subtitles are of 1cd (700mb) . In Movie subtitles comes along moviefor 20 min and then it is back from movie mean movie is forward and Subtitles are behind. What To DO Now?

i Have Movie Of 1.3 GB And Subtitles Are In 2 Cd’s I Have Remaned First One and how To Rename Second one.kindly Reply me on my mail .

Thanks in Advance
Saad
Camila, on July 16th, 2008 at 7:44 pm Said:

Hey,
How do I put a menu on my DVD so that i can burn it, then have the option to select the subtitle; or even burn 2 movies on the same cd.
easyrider, on July 21st, 2008 at 9:57 pm Said:

I have downloaded Scaramouche n the related subtitle file as well. I’m using the VLC player. i have tried renaming the file to .srt. Doesnt work. When it does, the timing is also haywire…I mean the dialogue-subtitle sync is not there. I am NOT a tech friendly human. So can any of you pls explain to me how to about this. Would be most obliged. Mail me at theasyrider@gmail.com

Thanx in advance.
Noooshy, on July 22nd, 2008 at 10:53 pm Said:

hi … this was great help thank u …everything worked great =) .. but the only problem is that i downloaded arabic subtitles but they show in wierd characters that need encoding … how can i encode them ??

thank u again
F_AIZOL, on July 26th, 2008 at 3:22 am Said:

My question might sound silly but I’ll try anyway: for most movies i can only found srt files named cd1/cd2. Now, my movies r often made of a single divx file, meaning the subtitles (’cd1?) will stop halfway through it. I’m using VLC and i can’t find any way to have the ‘cd2? file to start from halfway through the file. Any solution to this issue, pls? Did I make myself any clear at all? I hope so…
Did, on July 27th, 2008 at 6:18 am Said:

Wow.. It did worked for me..
Rahul, on July 27th, 2008 at 6:37 am Said:

One stupid question.
I have downloaded movie in .wmv format and this is not having any subtitles in it.
How can watch movie in English subtitles?
f_aizol, on July 27th, 2008 at 10:24 am Said:

My question might sound silly but I’ll try anyway: for most movies i can only found srt files named cd1/cd2. Now, my movies r often made of a single divx file, meaning the subtitles (’cd1?) will stop halfway through it. I’m using VLC and i can’t find any way to have the ‘cd2? file to start from halfway through the file. Any solution to this issue, pls? Did I make myself any clear at all? I hope so…
Rameez, on July 28th, 2008 at 9:49 am Said:

The Subtittle must be in the (srt) format.
at the same time SUBTITTLE name must be RANAMED as particuler films name.
varga alex, on July 28th, 2008 at 9:13 pm Said:

jol
rosettaStoned, on July 29th, 2008 at 5:07 pm Said:

thanks!
cuti, on July 30th, 2008 at 3:55 pm Said:

Hallo every body,
Any one out there who know to merge subtitle into an avi movie and thereafter convert the movie to DVD ? I have ConvertxtoDVD program but can’t see any where I can add the srt file
Pradeep Singh Bal, on August 1st, 2008 at 10:16 pm Said:

Thanks a lot buddy .. u solved a big problem ..
zycas, on August 2nd, 2008 at 1:47 am Said:

I can give u a good site which offers you to synchronize subtitles. The subs have to be in .srt format.
http://www.allsubs.org/
choose or synchronize subtitles to change the fps of the srt
the différence (offet+/-) from the movie and transform a srt in .sub
But if u choose 1=2 CD
http://www.allsubs.org/synchronize_subtitles.php?view=cdconverter_index
supposing u have only 1 movie and two 2 subs files
u can enter the name of the first srt
then the other u click to proceed and u have your srt joined on your hard disk.

More simple i never found out. And it can resolve some synchronizations pbm either.

I hope i’ve helped !
zycas, on August 2nd, 2008 at 1:58 am Said:

@cuti ! yes putting srt files into DVD in convertx2DVD is possible, i have done it myself. Just wait i reinstall this proggy and i will tell u exactly what to do to have your subs incrusted in your movie ( u can even have a few languages…).
Won’t be long !
zycas, on August 2nd, 2008 at 8:56 pm Said:

@cuti
if u have the proggy convertX2dvd version 2 or 3
and u put the movie and the subtitles in the same directory with naturrelly the same name as it s said 1,0000 times in the different posts
when u choose the movie u will have the the subtitles and then u can not add them but delete them.
remember : movie.avi
movie.srt (or movie.sub and movie.idx )
maybe if u didn’t came back it is because u finally found out !
Vitalii, on August 4th, 2008 at 12:45 pm Said:

RE:
Mario, on January 8th, 2008 at 5:49 pm Said:
What i often do is
a) open the srt file 2, select the content, copy and close.
b) open the srt file 1, click at the END of it, paste and SAVE.

My question following: with what program I can open a filename extension “srt”, and then after editing to save again in an extension “srt”?
I tried it to make by means of a notebook, but the file is saved in an extension “txt”, and its renaming in “srt” don’t give result.
KuRCe, on August 4th, 2008 at 4:40 pm Said:

Aisha (re july 6th)

D/Load a proggy called avirecomp. This will allow you to hardcode your subtitles in movie with ease.

Cheers.
KuRCe, on August 4th, 2008 at 4:45 pm Said:

Vitalii,

Open with notepad, save as (keep .srt extension)

Cheers.
Vitalii, on August 4th, 2008 at 9:13 pm Said:

I tried to make it by means of a notebook, then to rename with extension “srt” but new file is not loaded as subtitles, unfortunately.
cuti, on August 7th, 2008 at 10:47 am Said:

Thanx alots guy ………
I have succeded in embeding subtitle into my DVD movie

YOU ARE GREATTTTTTTTTTT
Ivan, on August 8th, 2008 at 12:29 am Said:

I renamed the subtitle file to .SRT (as in the video) but when I open VLC the subtitles are ignored. If I open them manually using menu I have to set FPS of my movie to 25 and the delay to -60 to get them working but the only time the text changes is when the subtitles change - periods of no speech mean the previous subtitles stay on the screen all the time. What is wrong? (btw I have “Adams Aebler.avi” and “Adams Aebler.srt”)
Dravack, on August 8th, 2008 at 8:14 am Said:

Ok so here is my problem. I have some anime vids I downloaded in Japanese with the subtitles as a option to select in say vlc player. but when I converted it to put on my psp the subtitles are not there. What can I do to fix this problem? Please help.
Robin, on August 8th, 2008 at 2:11 pm Said:

I have also a problem with some movies..
the subtitels are to late. I see them speaking, an about 5seconds later, the subtitles come..

how can I fix this???
r, on August 9th, 2008 at 2:07 am Said:

Robin, you might just need to download some other srt file, i’ve had the same problem a few times, and i’ve fixed it by downloading different kinds of files and trying them out. some of them work perfectly, some of them.. not that good.
zycas, on August 10th, 2008 at 8:48 pm Said:

@robin the movie and the .srt subtitle must have both the same fps (frame per second) look with Gspot (a freeware)the fps of your movie before downloading subtitles. And i already said that there are proggy where u can change the fps of your movie.
Bsplayer does it !
fajar, on August 11th, 2008 at 1:32 pm Said:

it’s sound hardest way but will result sweet thing ,
You can add .SRT to your .avi file using virtualDUB and SRT converter to SSA file .You can download that file at afterdawn.com (maybe(it`s free too)) and you can get how to add srt file to your avi guide there too!!
may be this is the link you need (or if not you can googling it first ):

http://www.afterdawn.com/guides/archive/adding_subs_to_avi.cfm

(I recommend that you must download the latest virtual dub (maybe in opensourceforge))

it s recomended that you’re movie.avi don’t have subtitle first or it’ll cross!
Mark Meves, on August 14th, 2008 at 4:31 am Said:

This site helped me solve my problem, but for reference for others:
I got VLC error “subtitle: failed to recognize subtitle type
main: no suitable demux module for … [subtitle file pathname]”

This error happened when I tried to load a *.sub file and a *.avi file both from the same CD rom folder, both named with the same names.

If i use VLC’s File->Open command and explicitly tell it a valid *.srt file, it still gives me the same error.

The solution was to copy the entire 700 meg avi file to my harddrive, and put the *.srt file next to it as described in the Howto above, ***and not have the problematic *.sub file next to the *.avi file***

Good luck and thanks
Anoop, on August 15th, 2008 at 5:04 pm Said:

sorry 4 again asking the same i am unable to make the subtitle to work on with my movies.so early reply required
stormbassen, on August 15th, 2008 at 11:23 pm Said:

is mediaplayer 11 a good player?? does it work with most srt files?
Well I am asking because, I am running my movies in mediaplayer11, and some of srt files works great, but then again…some doesn’t…ex I downloaded the srt file to the mowie shutter and it should be the danish subtitles, well now when I am running the movie it’s english subtitles…what the…. I have tried this *movie*.da.srt and it does not comply?????
superstargirl, on August 17th, 2008 at 5:09 am Said:

can i watch a MPEG -4 movie with subtitles. if so how am i gonna do it.
sanathanan, on August 17th, 2008 at 11:38 am Said:

this was a great help to solve my problem of viewing a movie with subtitle. It became a knowledge tank about this subject.I must thank first

While searching through the net I found this illustration most usefull to embed subtitle in an AVI file. You can write it in a CD or DVD and watch it using anything which play the video
farook, on August 20th, 2008 at 8:26 pm Said:

Hi Guys, i changed the subtitle file name as “movie.srt” & then i opened the movie file in windows media player 11 & other movie players, but still i am not able to view the subtitles, does anybody know how to merge subtitle into an avi movie ????? PLZZZZZ i need ur help guys
farook, on August 20th, 2008 at 9:10 pm Said:

Hi Guys, i changed the subtitle file name as “movie.srt” & then i opened in VLC player, but i am getting an Error Msg

” Unrecognized format for ‘C:\Documents and Settings\Mohamed\My Documents\Downloads\Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na\Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na.srt’

Wat can be done ? help me
Taheer, on August 23rd, 2008 at 10:02 am Said:

Hey i need the english subtitles of the movie Riffa, la starring Monica bellucci. please can u help me to get it ……
Pat, on August 23rd, 2008 at 3:41 pm Said:

So far no one has responded to the needs of MAC users.
What gives with you people?
eduo, on August 24th, 2008 at 12:55 am Said:

“We” people?

We have Perian for Quicktime, mPlayer, VLC, Movist, Plex, XBMC and several others and they ALL play subtitles, same as “you PC people”.

We somehow manage to not have issues. We know subtitles must be named the same as the movie. We know subtitles must be placed in the same place as the movie. Also the sames as “you PC people”.

We also can deduct that if we have two subtitle files and only one movie file then we probably won’t be able to use that. In the end if a subtitle doesn’t work we can download another (using SubDownloader or others) or try to fix it. We can use Subs Factory or Jubler to fix it.

I have followed the comments in this thread and I must say I’ve been surprised some people here even manage to start up their own PCs with some of the questions (and answers!).

It’s amusing, as Mac users are generally considered to be “simpler” yet there are problems I see here I can’t even imagine hearing from a Mac user.

Incidentally, I’m a Mac user who also uses Windows and Linux. I use Mac as a personal preference as I consider it the most balanced, useful and best-looking option of the three.
os, on August 25th, 2008 at 5:12 am Said:

eduo ++
I just refused to answer of all of these questions, because it seems some people dont even know whats is text file But on other side I am happy, there are 200 responses to this guide, I wish I have more time to make more guides.
timi, on August 25th, 2008 at 4:10 pm Said:

i dont know how to instaall this
yazeed, on August 25th, 2008 at 7:33 pm Said:

hey there
i have the windows media player at windows vista. i downloaded “horton hears a who”. i have also the windows dvd maker, i can add subtitles there, but the question is how??? i don’t have the right program to open the subtitle file before i add it to the dvd maker… please help me…
fjolla, on August 26th, 2008 at 2:14 am Said:

i have a problem with subtitles because when i start a movie , subtitlle showed but not in the same time.when the actors speak the SYNCHRONIZATION showed later.if anybody can tell me something about that , i will be thankfull.
Sandy, on August 27th, 2008 at 8:40 am Said:

All the srt file mentioned here is with …x srt and my problem is that which one to download. as many movies srt doesnot match with the voice while diplaying the subtitles.
Rocky, on September 3rd, 2008 at 8:45 am Said:

Thank u so much to the one who guided. Man! I would never come to know about this. It really helps a allot. thanks once again
Blair, on September 4th, 2008 at 10:20 pm Said:

Hi everyone,

What can I do to be able to read the Chinese subtitles in my movie? It just shows up as a bunch of wierd characters instead of the Chinese characters I was hoping.

Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Deptharters, on September 4th, 2008 at 10:29 pm Said:

If you are having trouble with the delay when using subtitle u should set the delay/timing in the MPC (vobsub) or at VLC
One thing u must know that the framerate also effect the subtitle.
Go to the movie properties and find out the framerate, usually 25fps. if u have a different framerate it will also couse u an out of sync. hmm gonna make some tutorial ill post the link here if i had done it.

http://depthart.org ~ a Sharing Community
eduo, on September 5th, 2008 at 2:23 pm Said:

Small comment:

framerate ONLY comes into play when dealing with “.SUB” subtitles. “.SRT” subtitles are not affected by framerate since they point to specific timemarkers in the video. The same is true for ASS and SSA subtitles.
Thomas, on September 7th, 2008 at 7:44 pm Said:

Hi

I want to burn the subtitle together with the film, but the sub is about 5-7 sec. before the speak. Why?

Thomas
Thomas, on September 7th, 2008 at 7:49 pm Said:

Hi again

The subtitle comes after 5-7 seconds.

Thomas
Joe, on September 11th, 2008 at 2:31 pm Said:

How do you get foreign subtitles to play? Im trying to get the japanese subtitles for rambo to play but it will not… does anyone know what is wrong? The srt and avi files are in the same directory. When i try to play the video, nothing will work in windows media player. The file plays in vlc player, but there are no japanese subtitles… any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
Joe, on September 12th, 2008 at 3:23 pm Said:

I have also changed the computer setting to Japanese uni-code, and it still will not work =(.
hirza, on September 12th, 2008 at 4:14 pm Said:

hey.. i try many time to watch the drama with eng sub..
but still can’t…
i don’t know what else to do..
help me!!!
i just wanna be crazy right now!!
Claes, on September 12th, 2008 at 6:21 pm Said:

I can’t rename the files!!
can enybody help me? please.
deptharters, on September 13th, 2008 at 12:48 pm Said:

Try this simple guide on how to watch movie with subtitle, very easy to understand and to use with MPC
http://depthart.org/how-to-watch-movie-with-subtitles-t2928.html
good luck guyz

btw opensubtitles.org is the best place for downloading subs!
f0ul99, on September 14th, 2008 at 7:47 am Said:

i’ve done everthing but there was no audio… the subtitles is ok… movie is ok but without audio… help pls… i used submux. changed the filename…
f0ul99, on September 14th, 2008 at 8:45 am Said:

hahaha now i got it!! finally
maionese, on September 17th, 2008 at 1:51 am Said:

i have a problem…
i´ve downloaded a video with the real player format, rv40, but i can´t put the subtitles in it, and i can´t fin no other player that plays that kind of video…

help me please!
ladamus, on September 17th, 2008 at 10:23 am Said:

Hi,
I am a Mac user. I downloaded two subtitles for a film, did what was told here and it works fine. BUT. How can I switch the subs off? The QuickTime player shows ‘off’ in the View/Subtitles menu item.
Thankx for the help.
eduo, on September 17th, 2008 at 10:37 am Said:

ladamus: To be able to use Quicktime you must first download Perian (perian.org) and install it. Quicktime can’t see these subtitles without it (the menu item you mention is for something else I don’t have the patience to explain here).

On the other hand you can just download VLC or Movist and use those to see movies with subtitles, as they have subtitle support built-in.
ladamus, on September 17th, 2008 at 5:57 pm Said:

Thanx for the reply. I do have Perian and the subtitles work fine. I would just like to know how to switch them off.
eduo, on September 17th, 2008 at 11:29 pm Said:

Ladamus: As I mentioned, you’d really make yourself a favour if you used Movist or VLC. They truly are superior players for what you want to do. Perian enables subtitles but doesn’t integrate them in Quicktime’s Subtitle menus.
splee, on September 23rd, 2008 at 3:34 am Said:

what do u do to get to the place where u change the file name?
josef, on September 26th, 2008 at 12:58 pm Said:

it doesn’t work. i am using the new wmp and my OS is vista. i have renamed the srt file and changed it to the same name as the pb title but it just doesn’t work. how’s that ???
kieu anh, on October 1st, 2008 at 5:54 pm Said:

i had this problem for the first time: when i copy the sub to the same folder with one of my movie file and change the sub file name according to the mov file… And when i opened the mov file, there was nothing on the window media screen, totally black. Then i deleted the sub, the mov played well.
I dont get it
Ryan, on October 3rd, 2008 at 11:06 pm Said:

I have eng subs and korean for a movie and cant get them to both play at the same time. How can I do this?
moleza, on October 3rd, 2008 at 11:32 pm Said:

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Paul, on October 4th, 2008 at 3:31 pm Said:

If do not want to have such a problems with subtitles as above, just use ALLPlayer !!!! http://www.allplayer.org
mr wysiwyg, on October 6th, 2008 at 6:05 am Said:

how about just ONE geek embed the english subtitles and then UPLOAD that version?
eduo, on October 6th, 2008 at 11:51 am Said:

mr wysiwyg: Wow. You’ve really missed the whole point, haven’t you?
wmp subtitles - Windows Software, on October 8th, 2008 at 5:43 pm Said:

[...] you but I use different method like this —-> http://blog.opensubtitles.org/other/…with-subtitles Also, I have noticed that when movie’s name is "mymovie" and subtitle’s file [...]
ralf, on October 8th, 2008 at 5:47 pm Said:

I use your method and i have done all but movie is not playing. Screen is black. Whats wrong?
Ibaghdadi, on October 10th, 2008 at 8:15 pm Said:

I renamed my Arabic subtitle file as the movie name and it appears while I run my media player the only problem is that I get an unknown format like it is Chinese or something like that, does anybody know why?!
seka, on October 12th, 2008 at 4:16 pm Said:

pomozite mi kako da gledam strane filmove sa titlom na srpskom jeziku. Hvala unaprijed
ty, on October 12th, 2008 at 9:49 pm Said:

Hi. my problem is i cant seen to open the file once its downloaded …it just comes as a blank file….my winrar works fine with other files…and i have tried with other extraction software…..any advice much appreciated…
jonas, on October 14th, 2008 at 5:39 pm Said:

my movie doens’t play anymore once I put the subs with the movie.
Without them the movie plays. It happens the most with Axxo and fxm their movies.
Does anyone else have this problem?
anhtuan, on October 15th, 2008 at 2:40 pm Said:

Jonas, I do have the exact same problem that you do. at least with Windows Media Player. I use VobSub, and the movie just won’t play if the subtitle is added. but it plays fine with the subtitle when I switch to Divx Player or BS Player.

The other huge problem that I get is that it seems like when subtitle is added, certain movies have their audio affected. like either the sound becomes too inaudible, or it is distorted. Does that happen to you?
papaya, on October 15th, 2008 at 3:19 pm Said:

Hello,
help me please:
1. I use MPC for watching downloded movies. I know how to watch them with subtitles when I’m connected to the internet but I don’t know how to save them together for burning on dvd for example.
I didn’t understand the short explanation movie.

2. I downloded Apocalypto and when I use the subtitles database it found me only polish subtitles.

3. The MPC doesn’t read the hebrew subtitles proparly.

What should I do ? Can you help me ??
Thank you for help.
brown1888, on October 19th, 2008 at 2:42 pm Said:

Hey man, thanks for the help! Really helped me out.
Phantom, on October 21st, 2008 at 10:41 pm Said:

Hi,

I’m using VLC player to watch a complete season of a TV series and all the subs for each episode differ from the video. The video is a bit slower than the subs so it starts off nicely but little by little the subs keep appearing too early and by the end of the episode the subs have already appeared a minute before the actual lines.

So far I have been correcting it with the “Advance of subtitles over video” function by changing it by like 5 seconds every minute. I’ve tried to use the “Speed of the subtitles” function but it doesn’t seem to have any effect on the speed of the subtitles. Am I doing it wrong or is there just no way adjust the speed? Also I haven’t been able to find a way to fasten the video by just a little so it could keep up with the subs.

Any help would be much appreciated!
abolfazl, on October 23rd, 2008 at 2:52 pm Said:

Hi!

sry!I have a question!i hope u can solve my problem….
I want to watch 2 subtitles,AT THE SAME TIME…
e.g english and persian,for improvement of my english speaking and vocabulary…

is there anyway for it??
ganesh, on October 23rd, 2008 at 4:39 pm Said:

sir please let me know how to play these subtitles in dvd player ? in computer these options work fine in vlc player, but what is to be done when i need to watch movie on my tv using dvd player. is there ne way to embedd subtitles in movie. pls help. thanks
Rodomoi, on October 27th, 2008 at 3:26 am Said:

Thank you very much …..
Realy, its very good
Ali, on October 27th, 2008 at 10:10 am Said:

Hi ,

I’ve done all above , I’ve renamed the *.srt file and I opened both files movie file and SRT file in VLC , but it didn’t work , the movie was playaed without any subtitle . it seems that windows did not recognize the .srt files . please guide me through
Rina, on October 31st, 2008 at 2:12 pm Said:

Hi

I am Watching Vedio with Subtitle But the problem is Vedio turn into Updown site its happen if only subtitle file in the same directory what can i do plz someone tell to me
Lita, on November 4th, 2008 at 2:47 pm Said:

Sorry for making such as this question. How do I “rename” the subtittle?? Because I’ve been trying a lot and it can’t be renamed, unless no into a rar file.

Pleeaase! somebody help me.
Colin, on November 5th, 2008 at 1:27 pm Said:

How do I put an additional subtitle for a movie that is already in DVD format that I’ve downloaded recently since the movie has only Spanish subtitle and I want to put the downloaded English subtitle. Should I convert the movie first into an AVI file and add the said subtitle, then convert it back into it’s original DVD format? Please help, how will I do it?
Trevor, on November 5th, 2008 at 9:12 pm Said:

I downloaded the subtitle and put it into the same folder as the movie.Then opened Neroshowtime,select to play that movie folder and hey presto the subs are perfect and in sync.Just have to figure how to get both onto a dvd now.

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