Windows Media Player Subtitles Encoding

When playing a Windows Media file or DVD that contains captions or subtitles, you can show the information in Windows Media Player.

Click the Start button, click All Programs, and then click Windows Media Player.

If the Player is currently open and you re in Now Playing mode, click the Switch to Library button in the upper-right corner of the Player.

Click the Play menu, point to Lyrics, Captions, and Subtitles, and then click On if Available.

If the Play menu isn t visible, you ll need to show the menu bar. To do so, click Organize, point to Layout, and then select Show menu bar.

Begin playing a file or DVD that contains captions or subtitles. Subtitles appear on top of DVD videos, while captions appear below the video portion of Windows Media Video WMV files.

For more information about playing a video file, see Play an audio or video file. For more information about playing a DVD, see Play a CD or DVD in Windows Media Player.

If you re playing a Windows Media file or DVD that has captions or subtitles in a different language, you can change the language in which the captions or subtitles are displayed. For more information about changing the language in captions or subtitles, see Windows Media Player language settings: frequently asked questions.

The performance of the Player might degrade when showing subtitles or captions on computers that have limited video memory.

If the Play menu is not visible, show the Classic Menus.

Begin playing a file or DVD that contains captions or subtitles, and then click Now Playing. Subtitles appear on top of DVD videos, while captions appear below the video portion of Windows Media Video WMV files.

If captions and subtitles appear even though you have not turned them on in the Player, verify that the sounds accessibility feature of Windows is not turned on.

If you are playing a Windows Media file or DVD that has captions or subtitles in a different language, you can change the language in which the captions or subtitles are displayed. For more information, see Windows Media Player language settings: frequently asked questions.

The performance of the Player may degrade when showing subtitles or captions on computers that have limited video memory.

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67 Responses to How to show movie subtitle in Windows Media Player Subtitles Plugin for Windows Media Player not encoding only the subtitles.

I did that and the case is still the same.

I thought about the subtitles and went to check them.

It seems that they are not in my language but in the same one as displayed on the. avi file.

If it is possible for you to tell me how to configure my win to read them in my language Bulgarian it would be great.

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Absolutely the same problem.. Please help i try with diffrent players KMP, BSPlayer. still the same strange simbols. And i am also Bulgarian .

Thank you so much, Velislav.. I had this problem for half a year, and tried to fix it so many times. After reading your post I did it for a minute. Thanks.

I have VLC media player and had a problem with Russian subtitles. I changes  encoding in Preferences: Subtitles to Cyrilic and it s all good. Thanks Velislav.

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