Thread: Using Subtitles Media Player

A few media players like Media Player Classic and VLC have support for displaying subtitles while playing movies. If you don't use Media Player Classic or VLC, then you might not be able to see subtitles in movies. ffdshow can enable subtitles in pretty much every media player.

Go to the ffdshow Video Decoder window by and check Subti tles. Click on the File radio button and click on ... to browse and point to the subtitle file, which may be where you downloaded it to, or in the same folder if it came along with subtitles. Select the position where you want the subtitles to be displayed by using the Horizontal and Vertical sliders. To change the style of the fonts, click on the Font item from the left. Set a suitable font, shadow, colour, etc. and click OK.

There are a few more advanced features. You can set a folder where all your subtitles are stored-just be sure to rename the subtitle filenames to match your video files. For example if your movie is called MovieTestl.avi, rename your subtitle file to MovieTestl.srt. Check the Heuristic search box; it can help in auto-detecting the subtitle file. If you don't mention a path, ffdshow will look for the subtitles in the same folder as the video file.