Subtitles

[Squonk]

So I gave a friend an original dvd with a film on it. He claimed to know english well enough to watch a movie, but, well, he does not. I found subtitles in his own language, but I really don't know how to use them. It's pretty obvious with a film downloaded from the net, but here, it makes me chose language subtitles from the list of subtitles attached with the dvd, and I don't see an option to just browse and find a subtitle file on my own. What should I do?

Thank you very much.

 

[GrandAdmiral]

So I gave a friend an original dvd with a film on it. He claimed to know english well enough to watch a movie, but, well, he does not. I found subtitles in his own language, but I really don't know how to use them. It's pretty obvious with a film downloaded from the net, but here, it makes me chose language subtitles from the list of subtitles attached with the dvd, and I don't see an option to just browse and find a subtitle file on my own. What should I do?

Thank you very much.

If you want to browse the dvd files you can just load it into a dvd app like dvd decryptor, but you would have to actually rip the dvd to add a file.

Maybe I'm missunderstanding, but it sounds like you have an original dvd and a downloaded subtitle file that you want to use with the dvd. Generally you would run the subtitled file with whatever ripped/encoded version of the film that it was made for as the timing won't match the dvd or other ripped versions.

 

[Fëanor]

What does your friend use to play the DVD? A PC, DVD player or some other media player (like a console etc.)? All PC's and some media players support various external subtitle filetypes, a lot of DVD players don't so you would have to integrate the subs with the DVD's own subs, which is usually more work than its worth, especially if the subs have to be re-synced, you would probably be better off getting an already subbed copy.

 

[Squonk]

well, a laptop / pc.

I don't think they'll find that film with turkish subtitles as easily in Syria, especially since it's 60 years old.

 

[Fëanor]

Get Media Player Classic - Home Cinema (MPC-HC) or VLC media player, they are both free a support most external subtitle types.