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Is there a way to add media from my network storage to vlc media library? I can browse the files on my NAS from VLC and have some basic playback functionality, but it seems to me that I can only add local files to the library.
Is there a way?

Then again people have been asking for this for years. So... does anyone know of a player for win32 that can do this? I've seen uhm for OS X.

BSplayer does this great in win32. If it only would work so good in Vista x64 systems...

Long time ago, when i first saw it, I liked VLC but eventually got back to BSplayer because there was no way to display external subtitles (like *.srt) without overlaying them into the film. BS and other players, have on the other side, many other bugs or missing features. I think VLC has come furth...

You could post a request for this feature in the Feature Requests forum, perhaps you would get a better response on what would need to be done there.

Thank you Arite, I will do so.

Subtitles are to me only backup in most cases since i'm more or less fluent in most common languages on film. I am a film enthusiast so it is important to me not to miss details, and that tends to happen with spoken word when film is in foreign language. Also, in my opinion, photography in film is m...

No you wrote movie container, which is a synonym for movie muxer, like mkv, avi, mov. So you are not clear. However, about having the subtitles oustide the Video Output, in the black bars, is not possible On second thought, you're right. I could've been more to the point. Anyway, you got it at the ...

What what ?
Of course you can display external subtitles, just do File open advanced and do it...

Read carefully; no offence. I know VLC can display external subtitles. I asked if it can display external subtitles without embedding them into the movie itself.
There is a big difference.

Long time ago, when i first saw it, I liked VLC but eventually got back to BSplayer because there was no way to display external subtitles (like *.srt) without embedding them into movie container itself. Is there a way to do so in 0.86c VLC? I mean I would like to have high resolution fonts and not ...