Saturday, October 24, 2009

Watching DivX Movies with subtitles

Watching DivX movies become a common thing nowadays and with the DVD players supporting DivX formats, some players (like Phillips DVP6233) comes with USB port so that you can plug in your pendrive, it is very comfortable, easy with DivX movies.

Sometimes, to watch other language movies (English, Italian, French) it is difficult if they do not come with subtitles.  For those who do not have any idea what a subtitle is, it is the english (or any other lanugauge the viewer understands) translation runs alongwith the movie under the video is called a "Subtitle".

There are plenty of websites like OpenSubtitles, Subscene, Podnapisi.Net which offers subtitles in many languages for almost all movies.  However, some of the guys (a slob like me) would be lazy enough to search in these sites to get the correct subtitles for the movies.  For them, here comes a niche tool Sublight.

Description
A tool which allows users to search online for movie subtitles

Sublight is a software that enables users to easily search for movie subtitles and download them.
It can search for subtitles based on several criteria such as movie title, year and more. The results are presented in list from where you can preview and download the title you want.

Main features:
- Auto search subtitle.
- Manual search.
- Internet explorer integration.
- Video playback.
- Support for VLC, BS.Player, Media Player Classic,
- KMPlayer and GOM player,
- Publish new subtitles,
- Auto application updates.

System requirements:
- .NET Framework 2.0

Enhancements:
- Possible to edit subtitle details (by subtitle publishers, editors and administrators)user profile.
- Improved subtitle details control - right click on subtitle or press F4 (added rating control, reporting, status, subtitle details editing)
- Subtitle history
- Added subtitle status color to list (partially authorized = yellow, authorized = green, deleted = red)
- Context menu key shortcut for properties




Note: There is difference in watching movies with subtitles in VlcPlayer and KMPlayer.  KMPlayer can be configured to make subtitles appear on the video or below the video (on the black border).  But, VlcPlayer cannot be configured to make subtitles appear below the vide (so far not supported).

You can download the program from SnapFiles website here.  Once installed, open the program and drag the movie file (.avi or .mp4 or .divx file) on the program.  It automatically searches for the subtitles from popular websites and displays the available subtitles.  If you do see a yellow line in front of the subtitle, then it means that subtitle matches with the movie file (linked subtitle).




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