UNDERSTANDING SRT SUBTITLES
Marketing strategy of present industry is changing dramatically to aid the changing trends as well as needs of people. Subtitles or captions form a significant piece pf pie, which are used in various ways to provide exposure and execution to such strategies. They are used extensively in development of textual versions of dialogues used in different movies or videos. Hence we take understand subtitles also known as captions are nothing but textual versions of the dialogues that are being played out from a movie or a video. These are often used when speech accent or language is not easy to interpret rather it is also becomes difficult to understand what is being conveyed. Then such versions help in translation of one language to another leading to definite business. Not only to provide business it aids people who are hearing impaired as by simply reading the subtitles they can easily grasp what is going around. Considering all these benefits of subtitles is becomes very important to understand as to how to play SRT subtitles. This can help us in operating these captions more efficiently and effectively.
It order to have complete knowledge about how to play SRT subtitles, we should also know about the files which are used in order to play or operate these subtitles. It is popularly known that subtitles or captions are available in .SRT or .SUB file format. These files can be easily searched and be downloaded from Internet. Internet is a known source of information primarily due to various websites that are running on it. These websites work as containers of information. This pool is easy to access and to be stored. This fact is even true in case of subtitles as these files can be accessed and be downloaded from various sites. Simplest way to search a desired subtitle can be done by simply typing the name of the subtitle or the associated keyword on Google and follow the search results to suit your need. There are many sites which popular and are primarily known to provide a huge database for subtitles.
It is important to note that windows media player doesn’t play .SRT file by default but players like VLC or GOM can play such files easily. One needs to upgrade media player with DirectVobSub, which helps in answering the question how to play SRT subtitles in windows media player. It acts a like a filter which is easily available and can be downloaded that allows windows media player to display the subtitles in it.
By Vishal Jindal
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