would someone please give me explicit step by step instructions how to install an external subtitle onto a foreign video that i will play on SMPlayer. i know how to download the zip file from google and once the text version of the file is in my Download file i know how to drag and drop that text onto the video. I just don't know the intervening steps very well. Somewhere along the line i seem to recall using a text editor...The hardest part was getting that text from the text editor into my Download file Please dont tell me to open it up like any other zip file because i have no idea how to do that. thanks
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What the questioner probably meant:
- Movie files with hardcoded subtitles are nice.
- A movie file with seperate subtitle file(s) (e.g. srt), is even better - more easily adaptable.
- Zip is a practical way of packing and distributing a movie and seperate subtitle(s).
- Only one problem: you can't load the movie file from the zip and load the srt from the same zip in a viewer (Media Player Classic, VLC..). So you have to extract sth or everything each time.
- Hardcoding a subtitle (or a group of subtitles) in a movie means literally waiting all night for the result.
- Adding/extracting a (or several) subtitle(files)/srt(s) to/from a movie should take only a few minutes in any movie file format (keeping video and audio codec as they are - streamcopy - only adding the sub).
- We can pack several things in epub, which is in fact zip, and read it as 1 complete file. Why not sth similar with movies?
- Or: Add/extract movie text in the same relatively fast way you would add/extract the audio part i.o.w.
- Developers?...
With archive manager installed, you can extract the zip file in any location. Later you can open it using gedit.
Make sure you have extracted the zip file with .srt or .sub where you have your movie file (Else copy from the previously extracted location to the movie file location)
In order to view subtitles, either drag the subtitle file onto movie file or right-click inside movie player and select subtitles from there.
