How to show movie subtitle in Windows Media Player

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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
    Window Media Player, subtitle, captions
  • 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!

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Posted at June 11th, 2008 by chua

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24 Responses to “How to show movie subtitle in Windows Media Player”

  1. Light reyozaki Says:

    thanks alot

  2. brad Says:

    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?

  3. Bilal Says:

    Thanks a lot, it works.

  4. pola jay Says:

    thanks…..

  5. potpot Says:

    its not working. help anyone?

  6. Ilari Says:

    Thank you so much! It works.

  7. Mohsen Nouraei Says:

    A helpful guide.thank you.

  8. Prem_U86 Says:

    It worked…Thank you

  9. eleni Says:

    thank you thank you thank you soooo much..I have been looking for ages how to do it..thank you sooooo much <333333

  10. dan marius Says:

    A very helpful guide. Thank you

  11. subtitles Says:

    It works well. It showed subtitles in my windows media player. Thank you for sharing

  12. aeno Says:

    it works for me…thank you for sharing this~

  13. max Says:

    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

  14. James Says:

    Thanks for the tip, mate! Worked wonders! :D

  15. StefanB Says:

    thank you very much lad!!!

  16. Zoltan Says:

    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)

  17. chua Says:

    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

  18. douchebag Says:

    Thank You!

  19. asar Says:

    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

  20. Kps Says:

    Thank you very much….
    Installing DirectVobSub(VS filter) really helped…..

  21. ellen Says:

    thank you so much!

  22. Mike Says:

    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 ??

  23. chua Says:

    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.

  24. Mike Says:

    Thank you chua, it Works !!!

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