Move the subtitle file into the same folder as your video file. Rename the subtitle file with exactly the same name as your video file, so you have two files like this: examplevideo.avi and examplevideo.srt. Play your video in VLC. You should now see subtitles appear over your movie. To enable subtitles on your VLC, simply click on the Subtitles track option under the Video menu. You disable subtitles the same way.
VLC Media player can easily load any file while playing videos. The subtitle is usually positioned near the bottom-center of the screen.
But do you know that there are a lot of ways you can configure the display position of the subtitle? Not only can you choose the alignment as left, right and center, but you can also fine-tune its exact position. It is possible to move the text up or down by a certain number of pixels. This is a method to show it in an empty black area below the video instead of over the video. Changing the Subtitle Alignment While the bottom area of the screen is a preferable location for subtitles, some might want it in the top or align it in the left or right side of the screen.
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VLC has all the necessary features to place the text exactly where you want to. To change the position:. Go to Tools Preferences CTRL + P. Under Show settings, select the option that says All to switch to the advanced preferences.
Navigate to Input/Codecs Subtitle codecs Subtitles. Under Text subtitle decoder set, the Subtitle justification to left, right or center. Hit Save to keep the changes. The changes will not apply to the current video if it is playing.
You will have to stop and play it again to see the new position in effect. Positioning the Subtitle below the Video (Instead of Overlaying) There is another way to fine tune the subtitle position. Normally, the text is over the video and can disturb us while we watch something. Instead of overlaying it, you can push it down. Doing this, you can place the subtitles right below the video but it won’t be visible at first. The goal is to create an empty black area under the video and push it there.
This will prevent the on-screen text from overlaying anything. To Create an Empty Black Area First. Go to Tools Preferences CTRL +P. Switch to All settings to access the advanced preferences. Navigate to Video Filters. Under Video filter module, check the option that says Video cropping filter. Now navigate further to Video Filters Croppadd.
In Video cropping filter options, under Padd, add a numerical value for Pixels to padd to bottom. Enter a value like 100. Click Save at the end. A black area is created right below the video.
Its size or height depends upon the value you just entered. The blank area also appears on the right and left of the video to balance and maintain the dimensions.
Now we have some empty space to place our text. To Move the Subtitle in the Black Area (Below the Video). In the same Advanced Preferences; navigate to Video Subtitles / OSD. In Subtitles / OSD’s under Subtitles, enter a negative numerical value for Force subtitle position. Input a value like -200. Note: A negative value forces it below and a positive value pushes it upwards. Open a new video, or stop and play the current video to see the effect in change.
Depending upon the video dimensions, some adjustments must be done to place the subtitles in the exact position that you want to. After you are done, all these settings and values must be removed from the advanced preferences to switch to normal playback. Positioning the Subtitle above the Video To move the subtitle to the top of the video, enter a positive value for force subtitle position. It is also accessible by:.
Opening up Tools Preferences CTRL + P. Navigate to Subtitle OSD. Under Subtitle effects, enter a positive number for Force subtitle position.
Hit Save and restart the video. The positive number means that the subtitle text will be pushed towards the top. By pressing CTRL + J.
The height value that you extract from the resolution information will allow you to figure out the maximum pixels to enter in force subtitle position. If you want a black area—just like we did above—on top of the video, then add a value like 100 for Pixels to padd to top instead. There is another way to padd the video, and it may very well be better to use. To do what I did, you go in filters, and find “Canvas”, put the output width, height, you want (I have put 1920×1080, this is my monitor display resolution btw), which is aspect ratio 16:9. And make sure ‘pad video’ option is selected as well.
Because if it is not checked, the video will be cropped, and we don’t want that. Next go over at “Cropadd” filter and make sure every value there is set to zero. Finally, go and mark enabled “Canvas video filter”, then restart vlc. If you have enabled cropadd, you can go ahead and disable it now, Canvas will use it if needed. That’s it, from now on, there will be no need to continuously enable/disable filters for every video. The only thing that I don’t have now is a good size for the subtitles, currently vlc offers predefined sizes (small, normal, large) or pixels. And we all know pixels are a no go, the other options are not that good either.
I think I explained this better in my other posts. Anyway, enough from me, I’m out. It’s stupid that we can’t make an effective placement of the subtitles to the bottom of the screen. Doing the above will always add those black bars, thus pushing the video upwards and even add black bars to the sides. The best solution is to put an option somewhere, to let us push the text to the bottom of the screen but not with fixed values (px) instead use percentage, I’d use 99.5%. Another thing that’s bugging me is the subtitle font size. I can’t have an effective relative size that I want.
What I mean is that the “Normal” size is good, but not perfect for me, what I would like is to have just a bit smaller than “Normal” but bigger than “Small”, so having a font size of either percentage or like the font sizes in pretty much any text editor (for example, open notepad go to Format–Font. See the sizes? They are not pixels) Those are just a few reasons why I prefer mpc-hc.
I could list more, but I’m tired of typing. Subtitle not moving below the video after the settings were changed as you told. I am using VLC Media Player Version 2.2.1. I did change the value to 100 of PaddPixels to Padd to bottom under ToolsPreferencesAdvanced PreferencesVideoFiltersCroppadd and clicked Save, and then I changed value to -200 in the Force subtitle position field under ToolsPreferencesAdvanced PreferencesVideoSubtitles/OSD and clicked Save too.
I did close and reopen VLC and played a new video and yet the subtitles appear overlayed on the video. Can you please help me to move the subtitles below the video?
Description: VLSub is not working with Vlc 2.1.x, please update to 2.2. Search and download subtitles from opensubtitles.org using the hash of the video currently playing or its title. VLSub still needs SSL support. I just update some of the languages with the VLC translators and put them on my forked version. This version has also a workaround link for the online translations, now on pastebin, that uses also http and is reachable by VLSub. If you want to have this updated translations or a working download link for them just use my updated version. More details you'll find on the github forum here: SSL could be very important for VLSub, when also opensubtitles change his services completely to SSL someday, this extension won't work anymore.
It's not so easy to include SSL support in VLSub, we need someone with more lua skills but we must keep that in mind, that this unsolved issue can make VLSub useless someday.