Adding Subtitles to a Movie

Have you ever wanted to watch a movie with subtitles on?

Sometimes, the pronunciation is a little too ambiguous and hard to follow. So in such cases, it's better to have subtitles... Don't you think so?

well, adding subtitles to a movie is so easy and it only takes 5 minutes(at most)!

Here I will explain you how to accomplish it.

But first you need to have a specific software installed for subtitles to work. I suggest you install K-Lite Codec Pack. It's one of the best codec packs available and it works with almost all kinds of media formats. You can download it from this site

After you download it, install the default configuration(this only takes 5 minutes) and you are free to use it for your media files.

Now let's get to the subject :)

Here's what you have to do:
1. Download the subtitle file from the Internet
2. Integrate it with the movie file

Before we get in to the actual process, let me explain what is a "Subtitle file". Subtitle files are files with .SUB/.IDX,.SRT, .SUP, and .SSA. There is also .SMI, .TXT, and about 20 others.
You can download them from a suitable website. I'll list some of the popular sites below

Subscene (what I use)
OpenSubtitles
DivX Subtitles
Any Subs
RDW Subtitles
Subbiee Search

You can download your subtitle file from any of the above sites. Subtitle files are usually 40 to 80kB (when zipped) and therefore downloading takes only seconds!

Ok let's get back to the process ;)

For the purpose of this tutorial, let's say you want to add subtitles to the movie "Twilight" (assuming that your Twilight copy doesn't have any subtitles) ;)

Once you download the zipped file(most of the time, the files are zipped to increase the download speed), extract it and get the file which has a .srt (or any of the above extensions) extension and place it inside the same folder(see the screenshot below)

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Then rename the subtitle file with the same name as the movie file(this is the most important step). For example, if your movie file's name is Twilight.avi then the subtitle file's name should be Twilight.srt (depending on the type of file that you downloaded).

And there you are! Now you have successfully applied the subtitle file to your movie. :)

Now I'll summarize the steps we have done so far (skipping the codec installation part)
1. Downloading the relevent subtitle file.
2. Unzipping it and obtain the .srt file.
3. Placing it inside the same folder that contains the movie file.
4. Renaming the subtitle file with the same name as the movie file.