If you’ve gone to a cinema in Malaysia, you’ll notice that there are 3 subtitles being displayed at the same time. It has English, Malay and Chinese subtitle. Me and my wife never had problems understanding a movie that we watch in cinema because I am English educated while my wife is Chinese educated and we can both read the subtitle that we’re comfortable with. Same like VCD disc where multiple subtitles are being displayed at the same time.
When it comes to DVD, there are even more subtitles BUT we are restricted to only display one subtitle at a time. That is why we never buy Japanese or Korean DVD to watch at home. My WD TV can also only support 1 subtitle file. After a spending some time in researching, I’ve managed to figure out how to display 2 subtitles at the same time when playing a video in computer or on a DVD player that supports loading subtitle file.
If you mostly watch downloaded TV series or movies on your computer, all you need is a player called KMPlayer. This is a free video player that supports loading multiple subtitles. If you have the first subtitle that is named exactly the same as the video file, it will load as primary subtitle and display at the bottom of the screen. As for the second subtitle, just right click on the program’s screen, go to Subtitles > Subtitle Languages > 2nd Subtitle > Load Subtitle…
Once you loaded a second subtitle, it will automatically display at the top of the screen. If you don’t like the way the subtitle is aligned, you can change that by selecting Subtitle Alignment option. Even the popular VLC media player can’t support 2 subtitles at the same time but KMPlayer can. Go here to download the latest version of KMPlayer.
If you want to play a video and display 2 subtitles at the same time on your DVD player, then it involves a lot more work. First you’ll need to burn or hardcode the first subtitle to the AVI video file and then load the second subtitle as normal by renaming the subtitle file exactly the same as the video file. Most DVD players automatically aligns the subtitle at the bottom of the screen. So when you want to hardcode the subtitle, make sure you align it on the top of the screen so it won’t both subtitle wouldn’t clash. You can refer to the article that I’ve previously written on how to add and burn subtitle to AVI video file.
The only step you’ll need to take note is step 9. Select the Styles button when you’re in TextSub settings and align the subtitle to middle top of the screen.
I now can watch movies of any language with my wife and we both can still understand what is the movie about without bugging each other to explain what is going on.
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it seems only working for AVI file. I tried it with MKV file but it didn’t work. am I wrong?
Dears,
I’m facing a problem! Recently i downloaded a move, but it hasn’t subtitles. So few days after that i found them.
Well, now i want to play the movie but despite both *.avi and *.srt are in one Folder, i have no active subtitles :(
Could someone give a hit – how to load them ?
I want to use my Windows Media Player and KML Player.
There’s an option in the second program through which i can Load subtitles, but after restarting KML, i must do the same…and the same :(
It’s really frustrating and i’d appreciate ANY help to solve this problem.
Suppose it’s some kind of “mating” on order to bond *.avi with *.srt but i don’t know how.
I use Win7, 64 bit (if this could help, if someone else have experienced the same issue with latest OS)
Sincerely
Peter
Hello,
Thanks a ton for the Post , Really appreciate it , This is going to help to quickly learn the foreign language ( German).
Again, Thanking you So Much
Regards
Srinivas
I’m Hungarian, and practice English. I’ve looked for it for a long time. Many thanks!!
thank’s alot ray.
thnx! My girlfriend is Hungarian and I’m dutch and we also had this problem.
I can understand english, which is not a problem for hollywood movies, but we also like cult movies in foreign languages (problematic with 1 subtitle).
Thnx!
This DVD software player can display 2 or more subtitle languages at the same time. Also can instantly raise subtitles to any part of screen.
forum.videohelp.com/topic373345.html
Is this my subtitle (from SubScene, OpenSubtitles or TVSubtitles)? Please tell me so…
I did do a Heroes S03E23 English edit subtitle, I think..
thnx raymond though am not a big fan of vdos stil i read yours blog to garner and enhance some hot tricks thanks
thnx
happy birthday raymond….god bless
wish u a wonderfull year.
may your heart be allways happy.
Okay about embedding two subtitles using TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress.
There are two ways. One way I discovered by accident.
1. Open TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress.
2. Start new projects.
3. Drag clip into area you want to add subtitles to.
4. Edit screen pops up select filter, select edit filters list. Drag subtitle filter over into filter lists.
5. Select subtitles from filter lists, enable subtitles. select edit menu, then import subtitle.
Play around with the layout editor to place the subtitle you want anywhere on the screen.
6. Format.
7. Encode.
What I did in the beginning was I would run the video with the embedded subtitle back through again and put the second subtitle in but one time I left the SRT in the same folder as the video and it embedded two subs at once. So now, now I use the filter to embed the title I want on top and leave the SRT in the folder that I want on the bottom. This way, I only have to make one pass.
Good luck any questions from you, I will gladly answer!! You are the best source of info for me!!
Ur doing a good job Ray.
According to Wikipedia this is not the KMPlayer but the “The KMPlayer”. And despite the name it has nothing to do with mplayer. And the code is stolen from open source, which is why I will pass on this one. There are other ways to play more than one subtitle, for example using ffdshow+VSFilter in Zoomplayer. VSFilter happens to be an open source application they stole, as is evident from your screenshot.
Ray, thanks!
Huh,
I’ve been using KMPlayer for a while and didn’t know you could do that….
Where do you find all this out?
Jason
Great tip, very handy piece of software. Is it also able to simultaneously show two subtitle tracks from a DVD?
Tnx for the nice tip Ray!
Thanks, i need this one. Wow, 1,500++ responses yesterday. Hope this same number (and more) did vote for you in the blog awards.
Great tip, as always on this blog. Thanks!
Thankx Ray :) finally a solution to some of my own download movies… You Rock !
i love heroes :P
KMPlayer is the best … I have been using it for a year …the only problem is its jst sometimes unstable…but the features simply rocks \m/
Ray, nothing more to say than “you’re the best” in the domain of all this technical stuff
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This is very helpful, thanks raymond
I was unable to post comment yesterday because of long list of about 1100 commenters so im posting here.If any i have chance.
Thanks, i didnt know about it, ill try this! Interesting tip!
Thanks for letting us in on this useful software Raymond. I wonder if there is a software like this with audio instead of subtitles. I had the same problem with different language. I will definitely give this a try Ray.
Terima kasih dan Selamat Hari Jadi, Raymond. Malaysia Boleh!
Thanks Ray i didnt known ’bout that, i’ll try this! It seems to be very useful!
thanks raymond good tip