How to show movie subtitle in Windows Media Player
When you watch DivX/XviD movies in foreign language, you can turn on the subtitle in Windows Media Player. Before you can turn on the subtitle, you have to ensure you have the item below:-
- subtitle files with same file name as movie (just different extension) and put it in the same folder with the movie.
Example:
movie filename: c:\movies\my_movie_title.avi
subtitle filename: c:\movies\my_movie_title.sub - DirectVobSub Installed – the subtitle filter for Windows Media Player.
DirectVobSub is a DirectShow filter that used to display subtitle. Click here to download DirectVobSub. - Once DirectVobSub is installed, play your movie with Windows Media Player.
- While the movie is playing, Click on Play -> Captions and Subtitles -> On if available
- Now your movie should have subtitles below the screen.
If you would like to download DivX movie subtitle, here’s the list of site to download movie subtitle:-
Enjoy your movies!
Tags: microsoft windows, ms xp, win xp, window media player, Windows Media Player, wmp
Posted at June 11th, 2008 by chua
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January 29th, 2009 at 7:05 am
thanks alot
July 2nd, 2009 at 7:20 am
does not work. trying to play ff7 advent children in bluray on WMP because its the only player that streams the video without skipping on my 46″ TV. Cannot get subtitles to work. There is no individual file for the subs – Only a movie file, uploader file (trademark), and an MD5 file. Downloaded DirectVobSub and subs still will not player. Thoughts?
September 24th, 2009 at 3:00 am
Thanks a lot, it works.
October 12th, 2009 at 8:51 pm
thanks…..
October 26th, 2009 at 1:52 am
its not working. help anyone?
October 29th, 2009 at 8:08 am
Thank you so much! It works.
November 2nd, 2009 at 8:04 pm
A helpful guide.thank you.
November 12th, 2009 at 5:28 pm
It worked…Thank you
December 20th, 2009 at 4:49 am
thank you thank you thank you soooo much..I have been looking for ages how to do it..thank you sooooo much <333333
January 5th, 2010 at 2:51 pm
A very helpful guide. Thank you
January 5th, 2010 at 8:06 pm
It works well. It showed subtitles in my windows media player. Thank you for sharing
January 11th, 2010 at 6:09 pm
it works for me…thank you for sharing this~
January 17th, 2010 at 10:52 pm
Comment: at first it didn’t work, because the filename of de subtitle did not completely match de avi-file. Simply making de names equal did the trick. Thanks a lot
January 21st, 2010 at 1:58 pm
Thanks for the tip, mate! Worked wonders!
January 31st, 2010 at 2:47 am
thank you very much lad!!!
February 1st, 2010 at 6:59 am
Thanks, it works.
However, the Media Player in Vista does not seem to have a turn on/off subtitle option.(or I just couldn’t find it)
February 1st, 2010 at 10:30 am
Zoltan, to turn off subtitle in XP u can click on “Play” -> “Captions and Subtitles” -> “Off”. I havent tried Vista yet, do check if there is any options for u, if no then u can just rename the subtitles files to a different name to avoid it to play the sub titles
February 7th, 2010 at 3:09 pm
Thank You!
February 12th, 2010 at 5:51 am
Thank you for article it works……But…i can’t resize the subtitles..,,i see it but its not big enough,,do you know if there is a way to make them bigger? ..stupid windows media ..always something.grr
February 25th, 2010 at 8:05 pm
Thank you very much….
Installing DirectVobSub(VS filter) really helped…..
March 7th, 2010 at 5:15 am
thank you so much!
March 11th, 2010 at 7:32 pm
Thanks i followed the instructions , but now when i play the movie in Windows Media player, it doesn’t show anything….No image , No sound , No Subs… why ??
March 11th, 2010 at 7:56 pm
hi mike, the instruction will not affect your image and sound. It will only affect your sub title. if you play your file, it’s high possibility that you doesnt have the correct codec for it. U can try to install K-Lite codec (http://www.codecguide.com/) it bundle most of the famous codec in one installation.
March 12th, 2010 at 6:45 am
Thank you chua, it Works !!!