DivX SubTitles. How to add subtitles to a movie or television series. One of the first things I do before watching a movie is add subtitles. Not just with films in languages I don’t speak well, like Japanese, but even with English films or television series, like House MD. Especially with a television series like House MD, if I want to keep up when they start throwing around names like pneumothorax or retinoblastoma. Today we’re going to look at a few different ways of how to add subtitles to a movie or any other video file. We’ll be discussing both the soft and the hard way – overlaying subtitles by means of software, or burning them directly into the videos. Add Subtitles To A Movie File Using via Overlay Method We’ll start out with the overlays, as this will be the fastest and most easiest way of using subtitles with your movies.
DirectVobSub Available for Windows This is an external, minimalistic application that runs from the taskbar and uses a DirectShow filter to overlay subtitles. [NO LONGER WORKS] VLC media player Linux Mac Subtitle Burning (AVI) OpenSubtitles.org. How to grab subtitles for all your movies with Subdownloader. @Dangger: You might want to read this: [www.fk2w.com] this [techdirt.com] or even this [en.wikipedia.org] I'm not a fan subtitler, but since I was first formally introduced to Anime in college I've followed the community a bit. It is most definitely illegal to 'share' subtitles. Some parts of the movie/tv industry won't care about it, for instance the fan subtitling community for Anime that hasn't yet been licensed for distribution in America rarely gets bothered. But there are, without any doubt, parts of the industry out there that are willing and ready to bring a hammer down on this sort of program.
This isn't a theoretical or hypothetical situation. Cases have been tried and the subtitles have almost universally lost to the companies on this one.