The super ultra easy method to get subtiltles for films and tv series using VLC

[buster]

This probably even works for foreign films but I've never tested it. It is useful because it's simple, and it saves wandering about on the web and looking. It's right there on a video player you might be using already.

You might need subtitles because of the accents, or because your ears aren't what they used to be. And let's say you were given a movie file from a neighbour and you don't question where she got it because you want to watch it. Anyway, you want an easy way to get subtitles. So here are the easy steps.

1. Install one of the most used video players in the world, VlC if you don't use it already. Make sure your movie is also in a titled file in your computer,such as 'the day the toads got angry' or whatever the movie is called.

2. Open the movie you want subtitles for with VLC. In Win 10,11 I use right click "Open with."

3. Start the movie and immediately pause it. I'm assuming you have already checked to see if in fact it has or doesn't have subtitles already.

4. In the top bar of VLC you will see at its right end "View". Click this.

5. At the bottom of the list that appears you will see "VLsub". Click this.

6. Magically a box appears. Check the language is correct. Check the title is correct. Then do a 'search by name' click.

7. Check to see that it works, and if not click the subtitles word at the top of VLC.

8. For a multi episode production I think all of it can be done from this on the screen described in step 6. Pretty sure you can use the same box for all episodes.

The .srt file will be put together with the film in the same file you keep the movie in.

If you can't get this to work, add a question to this thread.

[Jason]

Thanks for the tutorial, Buster. Very useful.

My wife and I watch all our shows with subtitles, even though we're watching them on streaming services. It has been reported that something 40% of viewers now use subtitles. In modern movies, it's hard to understand all the dialogue, and it's because they expect you to have 5.1 sound systems with all the bells and whistles (like in movie theatres). Some movies are created in different audio formats, but the result isn't always great. Some directors, like James Cameron, have gone on record saying they refuse to downgrade the audio quality for the audio-challenged audience. If you search for why dialogue is so hard to understand in modern movies, you'll come across a few articles that explain it better than I can.

We listen using headphones so left and right is all we need and honestly, headphones sound better than any speaker system, as far as I'm concerned.

[ssfc72]

Thanks Buster, for the detailed steps to get sub titles for a movie, using the VLV video player (if the sub titles are available for a movie)