How to connect subtitles to Windows Media Player

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Many movies, clips, and other video files have built-in subtitles. This property allows you to duplicate the speech recorded on the video in the form of text displayed at the bottom of the screen.

Subtitles can be in several languages, which can be selected in the settings of the video player. Turning subtitles on and off can be useful when learning a language, or when there are problems with sound.

This article will cover how to enable subtitle display in standard Windows Media Player. This program does not need to be installed separately, as it is already integrated into the Windows operating system.

Instruction manual

Immediately you need to download and install on your computer a package of appropriate codecs to view video files with subtitles. It is best to use the well-known assembly of K-lite codecs. If the desired video file is delivered without subtitles, you will have to additionally download them from the Internet, fansubs.ru or subs.com.ru resources are suitable for downloading. Unzip the downloaded archives into the folder with the video file.
Download from the Internet an additional plug-in to the player, which synchronizes the video file and subtitles. If possible, install a plugin that supports working with various players, this will simplify the reproduction of these files in the future. For these purposes, we recommend using the DivXG400 plugin, but it may not work correctly with subtitles, for which Cyrillic was used. This plugin is freely distributed on the Internet.

Screenshot DivXG400

Install DivXG400 on your computer. To do this, run the previously downloaded installation file, accept the license agreement and follow the instructions of the program. Make sure that there is a subtitle file in the folder with the video file, the name of these files should be identical, except for their extension. Launch Windows Media Player and play the video file in it.

To activate subtitles in the player, use another plugin called VobSub. This plugin works with subtitle files in various formats, it can be downloaded freely on the Internet. Install the plugin on the computer.

VobSub plugin

Connect the plug-in to the Windows Media Player, for the plug-in to work correctly with the Cyrillic alphabet, use Unicode mode. Make sure that the subtitle file is located in the same folder with the video and they have the same name, start playing the video file in Windows Media Player, and the subtitle display will start simultaneously.

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