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Include Subtitles in Downloaded Movie

Posted By Raymond In Category: Computer

Jun
26
2007

To be honest, even though I can speak and understand English, sometimes it’s tough to understand what the actors or actresses are saying in a movie. For cinemas in Malaysia, there are English, Chinese and Malay subtitles being displayed simultaneously. So even if you don’t understand what the characters in the movie just said, looking at the subtitles really helps a lot.

Problem is, downloaded movies and videos don’t contain subtitles. I think one of the reason why movie rippers don’t include subtitles in video files is because you can have your own choice of subtitles language. Let’s say you only understand Arabic and don’t know a single English word but you want to watch the latest Ocean’s Thirteen movie. All you need to do is just download the Arabic subtitle which is usually smaller than 100KB in size to go with the downloaded movie.

Here’s how you find the subtitles you want and include it in the downloaded movie in step-by-step instruction.

A downloaded movie is around 600MB-700MB in size. Let’s try to search for “An Inconvenient Truth” subtitle.

1. Visit Subscene to search for the subtitle.

2. Type in the movie name; For example, An Inconvenient Truth at the search box and click Search button.

3. It will display a list of available subtitles for “An Inconvenient Truth”. As you can see, it has Arabic, Chinese, Brazilian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English and many more languages subtitle.
List of Subtitle Languages

4. Click on the language that you’d like to download, type the four random characters and click the Download button.

5. Extract the downloaded archive file and you should get a .SRT file.

6. Copy the .SRT file to where your downloaded movie is located and rename it exactly the same as your movie file and retain the .SRT extension.
SRT subtitles for movie

7. Play the AVI file with your favorite media player such as Winamp or BSplayer and it will automatically include the subtitle.
Subtitle in movies

You might encounter a problem that is the subtitles are out of sync. It’s either too fast, too slow or appear in wrong places. The subtitle you downloaded may be a subtitle for a different ‘frames per second’ version of the movie. Try downloading more subtitles for your movie to see if any of them fit.

Another website that has a lot of subtitles for AVI movies is “DivX Subtitles“. I less prefer this site than Subscene because it requires registration in order to download the subtitles. But if you’ve read and implemented the BugMeNot article, you don’t need to register an account to download the subtitles.

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http://www.raymond.cc/ Raymond

http://www.opensubtitles.org is also not bad for searching subtitles.
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Long

“even though I can speak and understand English.” Sometimes your E grammar is not good though. Anyway, thanks very much for your really really helpful articles. :-)
http://www.raymond.cc/ Raymond

Yeap, I know that my English grammar is not that good but at least I can write, speak and understand :P
Amigo

you are a wonderful computer professor Mr. Raymond
thanx for the whole blog
http://tartooob.blogspot.com Tartooob

Thanks alot, amazing help.
airiz

i usually burn it and play the movies using my philips dvd player that support divx files.
Roger

Thanks, was always curious about this… :)
syal

hello raymond i want to ask one question from you
i have install vista so i need to install anti virus before that i have installed mcafee 10, esat nod32, kespersky and avest in all of them i didnt get the best 1 even i update them but still there are few virus or may be spy that are not detected by them could you please tell which 1 i should use and about norton the new version i haven’t tested that yet coz the older version were not that mush good thats why so could you please reply me i will be waiting for your reply
http://www.raymond.cc/ Raymond

syal, you are posting this question at the wrong place. It has nothing to do with this topic. We have a forum where you can ask question and actually we do have your question covered already.
syal

well thank you raymond i will try to search over there ;)
syal

hey raymond i searched in forum but didn’t find my questions answer 1 thing more that i can’t register there i get this msg (You did not fill in the correct letters/numbers to prove you are not a bot.) again i changed my name, email add and time but still get that msg please help me
http://www.raymond.cc/ Raymond

You need to enter the correct random words. It has nothing to do with your name, email and time.

Just make sure you enter the letters displayed inl capitals, please type only capitals. There is no number zero, any other number or letter is present.
PANICKED OUT GUY

Hey Raymond whats up man? great website. am having troubles ii downloaded NORTON ANTIVIRUS 2007 from limewire. I went on google and got a keygen for it but now there is a window and in it, it asks for hardware code and unlock code. you may have discussed this already but am not that great with computers. if you could help that would be great. :) plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Luciano

Hi Raymond. In addition to your article, there is a program called avimux gui, which purpose is to insert subtitles and other audio streams to an avi. so you have only an avi and the subtitles embedded in a single file! note that not every multimetia player supports it (but i use the best, media player classic that supports it). if you add more audio streams the file size obviously gets bigger and wouldnt fit in a cd.
http://www.alexander-noe.com/video/amg/
syal

tnx raymond :)
Dano

Thank you for this excellent subtitle site. I’m hard of hearing and I usually have hard time finding good subtitles, this site is great!!!

Thanks Raymond!!
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waleed

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Arun

Its not working
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skynet

can I use SRT subtitle for windows media player 11 ,because i’m using WMP instead winAmp or other
http://www.raymond.cc/ Raymond

skynet, yes you can use SRT subtitle for Windows Media Player 11.
Chris

Hi. I successfully downloaded the subtitles (srt file), use DivX player and it displayed the downloaded English subtitles.

Q1. Unfortunately, when I burn the movie and srt file onto a CD, and played it on my standalone DVD player, the subtitles did not appear. Can this be overcomed?

Q2. Also, the subtitles did not appear when I use Windows Media Player. How would you adjust it?
http://www.skykid.wordpress.com skykid

Sadly I am unable to find subtitles for about 30 movies I have in my external hdd drive – have been looking on all popular sub sites – no luck.
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Melina

hi…
i downloaded Arabic subtitles but they keep showing up wrong on my computer. i’ve used english suptitles. the problem with the arabic subtitles seems to be with the font, they come out looking like russian or something. any advice on how to fix this?
Yazan

Hi,
I have the same problem, I downloaded arabic subtitles and its showing in a wierd language. As if its some european language, can anyone please help?

Thanks
Jon

Hello,

I encountered similar problem like the previous poster. I downloaded chinese subtitles for my avi files and when played it shows up as a unicode symbols. I tried playing it on my dvd player and same problem. Another thing I tried was change my computer regional language setting to chinese and restart, and same problem. How do you display these subtitles correctly on the avi file. Any response would be appreciated. Thanks.
http://www.baki-board.com dido

same problem here the arabic sub are showes like symboles :s
Bigjudge

To fix the Arabic issues, you need to do the following:
go to start- control panel, choose regional and language options click on the languages tab, make sure that under suplemantal language support both options are checked. go to advanced tab and choose, arabic lebanon for example. Click apply then OK. (you might need to click on the regional options tab and change the system to Arabic. Good luck.
sua mae

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da um ano de cuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

essa pika naum funcionoooooooooo
naum tem em portugues porra,
xana peluda viu,
morra frito viado
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hana

but if i burn the movie, will the subtitle appear?? if not how to make it appear??
Siddhartha

After I burn the movie,the subtitles are not appearing from burnt CD.But when I copy and paste the same file in my local machine,subtitles are appearing.
How to solve this prob?
Leticia Cabral

Que puder me ajudar a encontrar estas legendas em portugues, agradeço desde já,
Flesh And Bone (1993)
Hell\’s Kitchen (1984)
Le Libertin (2000)
Lookin To Get Out (1982)
More American Graffiti (1979)
One Magic Christmas (1985)
She (1965)
S.O.B. (1981)
Summer Lovers (1982)
The Mean Season (1985)
The Mountain of the Cannibal God (1978)
To The Devil A Daughte (1976)
White Lies (1998)

Sem +.
leticiacabral@walla.com
alex

i try to donwnload any video from google whith subtitle but when i have the file in my pc the subtitle no appear why?i need some help please……post me at alexisreyess722@hotmail.com……..thanks….
Marcos Roberto

Eu gostaria de saber como EMBUTIR legenda em arquivo Divix…agradeço se alguem der uma dica…….abraços a todos
najaty

THANK YOU
Blad3

It really works?????i hope so……..thanks very much
Sandra

Hello everyone,

I am downloading movies via torrents and playing on Win Media Player. I cant get subtitles… Can any one tell me how to get them PLEASE…
iliana

wow thanks a lot easiest way to do this i found so far on the net, it can be done by anyone even me, jajaajj
Jo

Hi Raymond,

I’ve been searching the net for an answer and I keep on drawing blanks or not very good explanations.

Even though I tried the method you described, the subtitles that open end up as gibberish characters. I originally did this with VLC player and I found of a forum that said VLC blocked chinese(?) so then I tried WMP but it was the same.
Please advise :) thanks!
iliana

It works fine when I watch movies on my pc, but when I save the file in a flash drive to play in my dvd, subs don´t show :( how can I add subtitles and burn a dvd????
http://www.allsubs.org Roger101

There are lots of subtitle DB’s in the net and the one I’m telling doesn’t have the best search engine in the world but it does have most subtitles I could find on a subtitles site. Search for your one there. Hope you can find what you looking for.

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