Allow VLC to load and display subtitles for audio files

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I was just thinking that it would be a cool feature if you were able to load, for example, some SRT subtitles with a song's lyrics so that VLC could display it. Using the usual SRT timestamps you could control the lyrics timing and since VLC already supports subtitles it should be easy to write your own lyrics files.

Thanks.

[VLC_help]

Did you try with visualization filters?

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Oh, great! I didn't know this was possible. Thanks!.

Just one thing... Maybe VLC could add a NUL visualization or an Album Art visualization so that you can have the subtitles displayed over the default VLC icon or album art.

Thanks again.

[VLC_help]

It might be already possible with image loading and slave-input (but it isn't easy way).

[Vhati]

As of VLC 1.1.8, Goom and ProjectM visualizations are oddballs that won’t show the words, the latter can take a black-on-black oscilloscope milkdrop preset.

• Set wave_r, wave_g, and wave_b to 0.000000 to make the wave black.
• Save it to black.milk in a new directory.
• In VLC’s Prefs, Set Audio-Visualizations-ProjectM-Preset Path to that folder.
• Play a song with a similarly named arbitrary srt file in the same dir.
• From the Audio menu, turn on Visualizations-ProjectM.
• Wimper now that there’s nothing on-screen to distract from the subtitles you can’t see.

[mederi]

Thanks for an idea how to play music files together with music lyrics as subtitles. It works great within Audio > Visualizations > Spectrometer, where it is possible to disable all its visual components and then it is also possible to position subtitles in the centre of a clear black screen.
This idea also brought me to MiniLyrics application found on Internet.
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