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I would like to use a movie player that downloads subtitles in the language of my preference automatically. Is there anything like it? And plugins?
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I would like to use a movie player that downloads subtitles in the language of my preference automatically. Is there anything like it? And plugins?
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VLC media player can do this with an integrated addon.
The addon, called VLSub, is to be found separately here. It searches and downloads subtitles from opensubtitles.org using the hash of the video currently playing or its title.
VLC media player has an addons/extension site: addons.videolan.org. There is to be found another VLC media player addon for subtitles, called Subtitle Finder. It seems a bit deprecated from time to time, while the VLSub is actively supported and updated.
How to install extensions in VLC media player: - Put the file in the VLC subfile /lua/extensions, by default:
Windows (all users): %ProgramFiles%\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\extensions\
Windows (current user): %APPDATA%\vlc\lua\extensions\
Linux (all users): /usr/lib/vlc/lua/extensions/
Linux (current user): ~/.local/share/vlc/lua/extensions/
Mac OS X (all users): /Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/lua/extensions/
(Create directories if they don't exist.)
VLC media player with VLSub can even find subtitles for DVDs, although VLC media player is not too good at displaying such external subtitles for DVD movies. But it can search and download them, as follows:
Also, in Windows, BSPlayer downloads subtitles automatically, as already mentioned by a previous answer.
Media Player Classic (Home Cinema) has a download option under: File - Subtitle database - Download
Subdownloader, is a great tool. (For Windows it is not free.)
One might try Sublight: but it looks bloated and all for nothing after all, compared with something like the tiny VLC media player script.
Summing up:
For Windows:
For Linux:
For Mac:
VLSUB does not work with VLC media player 2.1 on any platform. Use older or newer versions of VLC media player.
i am using this function to show subtitles using VLC player. problem is that if use my beamer to display i do not see any subtitles. Any ideas? – Thariama – 2013-12-05T11:39:57.967
@Thariama: this is about finding and downloading subtitles. i do not understand what you mean by "using beamer to display subtitles". i guess you mean a video projector? the fact that vlc displays or not subtitles (in a normal display or a video projector) is a separate issue for which you should create a separate question. – None – 2013-12-06T19:10:22.250
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SMPlayer intends to be a complete front-end for MPlayer, from basic features like playing videos, DVDs, and VCDs to more advanced features like support for MPlayer filters and more.
One of the most interesting features of SMPlayer: it remembers the settings of all files you play. So you start to watch a movie, but you have to leave... Don't worry, when you open that movie again it will resume at the same point you left it, and with the same settings: audio track, subtitles, volume...
Other additional interesting features:
SMPlayer is free open source software (FOSS), and a portable version is available.
it worked!!!!!!! – Jader Dias – 2010-01-23T22:59:20.560
but of course ... :) – None – 2010-01-23T23:34:58.087
In my version (Ubuntu Linux) it cannot donwload subtitles. Error downloading http://api.opensubtitles.org/xml-rpc server replied: Service unavailable
Maybe the server url changed? – conualfy – 2014-10-13T14:06:29.653
Does not work for DVDs because SMPlayer won't let you change the search term manually. VLC (with plugin) will download the subtitles but not display them when playing DVDs. – Suzana – 2015-06-27T21:13:21.490
in case SMPlayer does not find anything, try the VLSub extension (VLC) I can say it can find more subs in most cases. – None – 2014-02-23T18:33:34.570
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Splayer claims it can do this, but I haven't tested it myself though.
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BSPlayer used to automatically search for subtitles on the web when I used it.
1pretty sure you can add this into XBMC via plugin/script, and there's probably one floating around somewhere. posting as a comment since i don't have specifics. – quack quixote – 2010-01-21T15:09:15.673