Windows media player showing subtitles by itself?

[Hitokun]

Um....that's what seems to happen now. But what the subtitle file I have is a .srt file so I'm kinda confused right now. A person on the forums told me that windows media player can only understand and play .smi subtitle files.

In any case, I want to be able to play my movie with windows media player and have WMP be able to add my subtitles to the movie by itself (without help of vobsub or any other codecs) since I'm trying to play the movie at my school which blocks installation of any programs/codecs. I'm assuming that I've installed so many codecs on my personal comp that one of them had the encoding abilities to allow WMP to play .srt files. The school computer won't have those kind of capabilites. It will only be able to play files it is capable of playing as an original WMP 10 program (without extra codecs).

I also don't want to use programs to fuse my subtitles and movie together because out of experience I know that the quality will be much worse, and this movie is the kind that you just have to see at original quality because it's just such amazing graphics. Thanks for all your help!!

[Baldrick]

convert the srt to smi with subtitle workshop?

[celtic_druid]

You could use mplayer or VLC. Both should run fine without any need to install and both support various subtitle formats including srt.

[Hitokun]

You could use mplayer or VLC. Both should run fine without any need to install and both support various subtitle formats including srt.

Uh....I tried downloading both and both require an installation. Can you be more specific as to if I have to download a specific version...etc.?

[celtic_druid]

Any version should do. mplayer definatly doesn't require installation since there is no official installer.

VLC can be downloaded as an installer, but that is just to make things easier. You can simply download a zipped version, unzip and play.

Personally I'd go with mplayer since it is basically just one EXE. My recent builds are hopefully working now with TTF's for subtitles to so you can use a system font for subs if you wish.

[lyberty]

(please let me know if this belongs in a new topic...)

@celtic_druid (or other users)-

On the subject of using Windows system TTF fonts with recent builds of mplayer (say, 2005.10.26.P4) --
Can someone provide a brief explination of which file to edit in order to point to the TTF font to be used, and/or syntax?

I tried reviewing the /DOCS/ on the official site, but it all seems focused on Unix/Linux setup and install... (also tried reviewing the standard set of forums, but I don't see it; but if you have a link, I'll take that

Is it something as simple as just putting "-font 'Arial'"
into "/mplayer/config"?


Thanks.