Sunday, October 09, 2016

How To Download Subtitles Using VLC Media Player?

Subtitles help the viewers of other non-native language person’s help in understanding the characters conversations while the video is playing. Without subtitles, it is gruesome task to watch movies of other languages. Downloading subtitles using VLC media player is the simple technique that helps you choose from a list of subtitles that is well suited to your requirements.


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Download Subtitles Using VLC Media Player

There are many websites online that help in downloading subtitles for any movie. These can be a little bit gruesome task to find the movie name and download subtitles. But downloading from the Player while the video is playing is quite awesome to do. Even VLC media Player has hidden feature of downloading YouTube videos also. They are many features in VLC player and downloading movie subtitles is one among them.

Downloading subtitles using VLC media player is easy and we can get any movie subtitles without downloading them separately.



Steps to download subtitles using VLC media player:

Step1. First, download VLSub Extension by clicking on the link here. Extract the .zip files and place the vlsub.lua file in the path specified below.

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Download Subtitles Using VLC Media Player

Windows (all users): %ProgramFiles%\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\extensions\

Mac OS X (all users):
/Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/lua/extensions.



Step2: Now play any movie of your choice in VLC media player.
           From the menu bar select View tab > download subtitles

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Download Subtitles Using VLC Media Player


Step3. Click on the search by name option, all available subtitles related to the video will be displayed.


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Download Subtitles Using VLC Media Player
Step4. Select the subtitles from the list and click on the download selection button. Now subtitles will be added to the video.

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Download Subtitles Using VLC Media Player
Next time, if you play the movie you will be presented with subtitles along with the video.


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Download Subtitles Using VLC Media Player
Finally, Use this hidden feature of VLC media player and download subtitles for videos easily without searching for a third party downloader.

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