Sunday, October 24, 2010

Show and Play Subtitle in Windows Media Player (WMP) with DirectVobSub (VSFilter)

Subtitle is textual versions of the dialog in movies, films and TV shows that usually displayed at the bottom of the screen. The subtitle is useful when viewing video in foreign language, where the subtitle can display translation caption. Subtitle can be also a written rendering of the dialog in the same language, with or without added information to help viewers, especially the deaf, hearing impaired person, and who have accent recognition problem to better understand the spoken language.

Windows Media Player (WMP) is one of the most commonly used media player to view movies, films, video clips and TV shows. Unfortunately, all versions of Windows Media Player, including Windows Media Player 12 (WMP12) in Windows 7 and Windows Media Player 11 (WMP11) in Windows Vista does not have built-in filter to load and show the subtitle when playing back the video.

In order to display and show subtitle in Windows Media Player, Windows Media Center or any other DirectShow player such as Media Player Classic, Zoom Player and etc, Windows users can download and install DirectVobSub, which was previously known as VSFilter or simply VobSub.

DirectVobSub is a software add-on for Microsoft Windows (a DirectShow subtitle filter) that is able to read external subtitle files and render subtitles along with digital video playback. DirectVobSub integrates automaticlaly with any DirectShow-based media player for automatic playback of subtitle, and can also be used as a plugin for AviSynth and VirtualDub by using the VSFilter.dll file to rename as VSFilter.vdf. DirectVobSub is part of Guliverkli2 project.



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