Can't play Subs!

[Seasonal]

Dear friends

I have an issue, i tried to play on avi file along with it subs but VLC is giving underneath message:

VLC can't recognize the input's format:
The format of 'D:\DL\xxxx\cowry-thunter-cd1.sub' cannot be detected. Have a look at the log for details.
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Please do help me.

Thanks

[Baldrick]

Video Conversion? Moving you to our subtitle setion.


Is it a text sub file(open in notepad and check if you can read the text) or an sub and idx(image subtitle) file?

[Seasonal]

Video Conversion? Moving you to our subtitle setion.


Is it a text sub file(open in notepad and check if you can read the text) or an sub and idx(image subtitle) file?

It is IDX file, can't open in notepad. Thanks for the help.

[handyguy]

There are a few sites you can get subs that work for free, subscene.com is one.

[jimhoofd]

play it with media player classic. Just drag de idx file in ur screen and it will load.

theres also a sticky about converting idx/sub to .srt : https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/209730-How-do-I-convert-DVD-or-sub-idx-to-text-srt-subtitles