Sunday, February 10, 2008

Getting subtitles to work with your saved movies

Subtitle Files tend to consist of 2 files, an IDX and .srt/.sub

Without either one of these, it may or may not allow your media player to run its subtitles. Here's an Example:

In order for VLC Media Player to automatically load your subtitles, ensure that the movie name, and subtitle names are exactly the same, as shown below:

Movie name: ramayan.avi
Subtitle files: ramayan.idx ramayan.sub

Ensure all 3 files are in the same directory.

This method works for .avi, .mpeg, etc files, but are different to DVD files.