[vlc] vlc Digest, Vol 37, Issue 12

[PesoMemo]

vlc-request at videolan.org wrote:
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> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 22:59:01 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Adam Freitas <adam.freitas at sbcglobal.net>
> Subject: [vlc] Hearing Impaired Question
> To: vlc at videolan.org
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> Does your software have the option to display the 
> text (English, for example) so that one may read the dialogue provided that the 
> video includes this information within the video file (.avi, for example)? 

If a video file has subtitles embedded, then they are going
to be part of the video.  Otherwise, the subtitles are in a
separate file with a .srt or .idx/.sub extenstion etc.  If
the DVD doesn't have a subtitle file with it, there are often
subtitles available online which you can find using Google
or one of the many subtitle sites.  If the .srt file has the
exact same name as the .avi file (minus the ext of course),
it should pick it up automatically if autodetect is checked
on Preferences->Video->Subtitles/OSD page.  You can set the
dir and fuzziness there too.  You can set the size/etc under
this page on 'Text Renderer' page.

To use a .srt or .sub file, there are several ways to get
VLC to recognize them.  Under the preferences, you can specify
how and where to pick up a subtitle file, or you can right
click on the video after it starts and pick one or you can
drag the subtitle file onto VLC to open it.