Windows Media Player and .srt files

VLC Player or an old version (oldversion.com) of BS Player are good choices. Don't get BS Player from the official site because it contains ads. VLC Player should find your subs if you rename them to [name of movie].srt where [name of movie] is the exact filename of your movie, sans the .wmv part. If not, go to File -> Open (not Quick/ Fast Open)

Before you do that, if you want to watch the movie in WMP you can also do that.

Either with DirectVobSub or with ffdshow
I've used both, and ffdshow seems to be faster with starting up, and takes up less resources, but either work fine with any WMP edition.

Once installed, make sure your .srt file has the exact same name as your media file.
E.g. you want to play FindIng-NemO.mpg make sure the srt will be this: FindIng-NemO.srt (f2, ctrl+c on the movie then ctrl+v on the srt)

If done correctly, on DirectVobSub you'll get to see a green arrow in the right lower right part of your screen, and with ffdshow you'll get to see either an audio and/or video codec icon in the lower right part of your screen.

Right, I will make it clearer for you, and with the use of ffdshow now.
So first, just uninstall DirectVobSub, and download ffdshow, as provided in my other post and install it.

After installing ffdshow, go to the folder where you've located your movie, and be sure to also have put the .srt file in there. Like so:



Now, start your movie, and you should see these two (or only one) icons appear in the lower right part of your screen:



Now check if your subtitle runs smoothly along with the spoken texts in the movie. If not, try other version, but if there aren't any, there's a way to fix that too, just let us know if this has worked to show the subtitles in WMP.

Ok, for ffdshow, you can set it to C:\Program Files\Ffdshow if you want. It doesn't change how the program works or anything.

For the installation itself, just leave everything at it's default and you'll be fine.

Freeze, there's one problem. The images you have hosted don't seem to be appearing. All I see is that small white box with the red 'x' in it. Tried R-clicking and Show picture several times but still doesn't show.

However, I've understood what you're trying to say. But still, there is another problem. I have both the wmp file and the .srt file in the same directory, in the same folder. Only these two files in that folder. Name of both are same also. The name of the wmp file is the same as the .srt file with the exception of the ".srt" not being over-written. There is no gap between the last character and the ".srt". The last character is a bracket ")". When I open the Windows Media Player, I think the icons you are talking about are on my lower right-side tool-bar which are a "FF", one with small black righting under it and one with turquoise coloured righting under it, in front of the black one. I take these are 2 icons you are talking about?

If so, there is still a problem. When I open the Video file and these 2 icons appear South-East of my screen, there are no subs. Any idea what is wrong?

Thanks for all the help.

Rikkus, I'm currently downloading your suggestion. Will post back for results.

Thanks again.

Freeze, first of all, I'd really like to thank you for all the support you gave. I really appreciate it.

Second, Rikkus's thing worked. I can see the subtitles now. Thanks for the help Rikkus.

I don't know why the subtitles didn't show up. I tried the thing you suggested above, made sure everything is correctly labelled and checked wether there was or was not any text in the .srt file. Wierd. The .srt file is okay cause it works with VLC Player so I don't think any thing is wrong with the .srt file.

Still, thanks both of you for the help.

hi! sorry, i don't know if my question has been answered in the previous thread but i don't hve time to scan them because of my computer..

anyways.. i downloaded an .srt file.. it is a korean video with subs but i don't know what program should i use to view it.. hope somebody can help. tnx!