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I tried to do it with Wine, but it doesn't work. It says "Convert which file"? I can't type anything and when I press Enter nothing happens.

Thank you, but, as I said before, I am using Ubuntu . Can I use this with Wine?

Irrelevant. I don't (and nor should you) care what other applications do. People should learn to write proper subtitles. If people don't close their formatting run, the behaviour will be undefined. I agree with you, but sometimes I download the subtitles that don't have <i> closed with </i> and the...

Not in Media Player Classic & GOM, which I used on Windows. MPC, GOM: 1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02.000 <i>This should be in italic This should be in italic is shown this way: This should be in italic This should be in italic And this: 1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02.000 <i>This should be in italic</i...

One more thing - when italics tag isn't closed (</i>), VLC doesn't show italics.

I solved this by installing mplayer. When I installed it, I could see italics and other srt subtitles formatting in VLC. I guess it's because of one of the mplayer's dependencies.

Thanks!

Is it possible to export VLC settings to a file (so I could copy the settings to another computer when installing VLC there)? Maybe the settings are automatically saved to a file, and if so, where is that file placed (on Ubuntu)?

But I'm using Ubuntu 9.04 and I don't see italic and bold. (?)

You should add support for Italic and Bold tags in subtitles. Currently, only underline is supported. EDIT : I can get it to show italic and bold in subtitles only if I use more advanced format (such as .ssa or . a s s, rather than .srt or .sub; but then i can't set the charset so it shows windows-1...