Subs cover-up bottom of screen

[ProudAnselmo]

I'm trying to watch Ingmar Bergen's classic Wild Strawberries on my PC, and since I don't know Swedish I really need to use the subtitles. It's a DivX file if that matters. They are synched up fine and everything, but my problem is that in addition to the subs that show on the movie, they also appear smaller below the movie in a black bar:



While certainly annoying and redundant, I suppose I could live with it. But then when I try to watch full screen, that annoying black bar actually covers up the bottom part of the screen:



Why is this happening, and how can I stop it? I've Googled and searched the forums here for an answer, but I'm not even sure what search terms I should use. I'm posting my question here as a last resort, so I apologize if I'm overlooking something really obvious or missing a thread that has already covered this. Thanks!

[redwudz]

I'm not sure of the post, but I seem to remember that will happen when your software player decodes the subs, along with when a program like VOBSUB subtitle decoder is running at the same time. If so, turn one of them off.

Someone else may show up with a better idea.

And welcome to our forums.
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EDIT: Maybe this one: https://forum.videohelp.com/topic328515.html

[ProudAnselmo]

Thanks for your help! I couldn't get the subs to work until I installed Vobsub, so I thought having the WMP subs turned on wouldn't make a difference, but it did.

[AlanHK]

I found that if I had "movie.avi" and "movie.srt" in the same folder, that many media players would automatically load the srt. Sometimes this would cause a duplication or conflict, or even a crash. So to stop that I just rename the srt as "movie_.srt", so it's not found automatically, and load it explicitly from the player options if I need it.