can I play a movie with 2 subtitles at once?

[innn]

Hello I am interested if this is possible one sub at the top of the screen the other at the bottom.If serves me to learn foreign languages.For that I have one .srt in my native language the other .srt in some other language.
But alas I cannot figure it out.
Can you guys help me? My player of choice is smplayer, though I might use any. I've just posted there as well but thought I should ask here too.
What do you think?

[videobruger]

I would hardcode them using a subtitle format for the upper subtitles allowing positioning (ASS, IDX/VOBSUB)

https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/355028-How-to-hardcode-2-subtitles-on-top-and-bottom-of-the-video

[Baldrick]

Doesn't Potplayer support dual subs? Or was it kmplayer. I'm sure I have tested it with some player.

[videobruger]

Maybe MPC?

http://forums.afterdawn.com/t.cfm/f-158/subtitles_at_both_top_and_bottom_in_vlc-958944/

Never tried it.

[Cornucopia]

MOST players do not. If you wanted to use 2 subs at once in those, you would either have to re-encode (twice) with subs burned in (hardcoded), or you would have to merge the 2 subs in a subtitle editor and remux the result back into the video as a 3rd sub stream. The latter would be preferrable for both time and quality reasons.

Scott

[videobruger]

re-encode (twice) with subs burned in (hardcoded),

MediaCoder can hardcode an internal (muxed) subtitle together with an external at the sam time, ie one re-encode.

[jimdagys]

Chinese player (adware) will display 2 subtitles at once when playing DVDs. I don't know if it will display 2 subtitles when playing video file/2 srt.
Instructions on how to use and download link at end of posting:
https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/310387-DVD-software-player-raise-subtitles-to-top-o...eous-subtitles

[innn]

Thank you all very much for your answers.
I must admit that as baldrick noted I remember too that potplayer did that, but also I remmeber that smplayer, vlc did it too or are supposed to do it. Anyhow as I failed to account for my interest to spend some time on a linux machine I will not be having any access to potplayer soon.
As I don't want to re-encode any of my avi files I am interested in what Cornucopia said about merging the subs and remuxing in the video. Do you perhaps know if I can use http://home.gna.org/subtitleeditor/ program for that or aegisub (as those two are available on ubuntu)?
And will that process of remuxing be time consuming? Please recommend an editor for that too.