Online videos are a rage today, and are increasingly becoming popular shared media content across social networks. Subtitles are required if the video is not in your native language, or the audio quality is poor. In this tutorial, we'll describe how to add subtitles to your video files, assuming you already have the .srt subtitle file downloaded to your computer. (.srt is an extension for srt files. srt files are the main subtitle files which can be easily downloaded from various websites.)
VLC Player
Step 1: Open your video in VLC player, and right click on the video.
Step 2: Click on add subtitles file.
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| Add subtitles file |
Step 3: Browse to the folder where you have downloaded the subtitle file.
Step 4: Double click on the desired file, or single click the file and hit open button.
In VLC, subtitles will sync automatically with your video.
Online videos
If you are watching your videos online, either on youtube or on any other site, which may even use flash player for playing videos, you know very well that automatic captions are no good. You have 2 options:
Using VLC
Step 1: Open file in VLC.
Step 2: Click on Add Network Stream.
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| Streaming form VLC |
Step 3: Type in the URL of the video in the textbox and hit enter.
Using Greenfish Subtitle Player
