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

  1. MikeS says:

    Followed all the steps, have the file named exactly the same as the movie with .sub at the end of it, subtitles option is checked to on if available, i have K-Lite and DirectVocSub yet nothing works, still no subtitles on my movie, what do?
    The movie is in mp4 format if that changes anything.

  2. Heather says:

    When I download subtitles the file is in .srt format. Will the process above also work if the file is .srt? Or does it have to be .sub?

  3. Filip says:

    Thanks alot mate! it helped :D

  4. mark says:

    What are you talking about??? There isn’t any….. Play -> Captions and Subtitles…..There is nothing that looks like that at all. I have a “now playing” “Rip” “Burn” “Sinc” and “Media Guide”…and that’s all. No file or any such creature.
    Where is this ghost option??????????????

  5. anon says:

    For .mkv you need the following splitter installed

    http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Haali_Matroska_Splitter.htm

    You will notice the matroska icon in the system tray when playing back .mkv. Right click it and choose the subtitle and audio stream.

  6. Jay says:

    Playing back an .mkv video outputs all subtitles, even when they’re speaking english, which I perfect understand and do not need a subtitle for. I’m thinking this is due to the creator of the .mkv not encoding only the subtitles for the foreing language, but all subtitles. (RE: maybe the source is bad) – happens on all of my mkv’s, however.

    Any ideas?

    Thanks

  7. Mike says:

    Thank you chua, it Works !!!

  8. 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.

  9. 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 ??

  10. ellen says:

    thank you so much!

  11. Kps says:

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

  12. 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

  13. douchebag says:

    Thank You!

  14. 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

  15. 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)

  16. StefanB says:

    thank you very much lad!!!

  17. James says:

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

  18. 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

  19. aeno says:

    it works for me…thank you for sharing this~

  20. subtitles says:

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

  21. dan marius says:

    A very helpful guide. Thank you

  22. 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

  23. Prem_U86 says:

    It worked…Thank you

  24. Mohsen Nouraei says:

    A helpful guide.thank you.

  25. Ilari says:

    Thank you so much! It works.

  26. potpot says:

    its not working. help anyone?

  27. pola jay says:

    thanks…..

  28. Bilal says:

    Thanks a lot, it works.

  29. 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?

  30. Light reyozaki says:

    thanks alot

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