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Ha ha... thanks so much for the speedy and ever so helpful advice. :lol: Beg your pardon for being sarcastic, but I think I indicated in my very first posting (perhaps not with appropriately exact terminology) that I had already tried switching the encoding to Big5 with no effect. After waiting so l...

Yeah thanks, but how do I do that?

Please can someone give me some easy to understand help? I have an xvid file of an English language movie. (I am in China and am trying to make it possible for my friend to view this film with Chinese subtitles, which I have downloaded.) So I have 3 .srt files. One is English subtitles, which seem t...

Tried them, no joy. C'est la vie!

Ah thanks, that gets something displaying, shame that there's obviously something amiss with the file anyway.

Hi folks. :) I'm English but I live and work in China. I use the VLC Media Player on my PC and love it. Sometimes I like to show movies to Chinese friends. It can be difficult to find subtitles for many things but sometimes I'm lucky. At the moment I have 2 .srt files for a particular movie. One is ...

:D A huge thank you for that! They are now working! For anyone else as slow as me let me just say that in this situation the key seems to be that you must ensure the .sub file and the .idx file have exactly the same name, (except for the file extension of course, you must leave that .sub and .idx). ...

Sorry, I'm sure regular users will immediately be cross to see a thread with this title. Please pardon a frustrated amateur. Normally I never use subtitles anyway but I am in China trying to teach medical English to students. So I have been showing them certain medical films and for one in particula...