We all use VLC player, we know it’s a great player and simple but there are few many things which are simple and it lacks. Rather a fundamental feature which lacks in all media players we use. The ability to give us appropriate subtitles to our digital media.
Technically, it isn’t really hard to find the missing subtitles in your digital media but who doesn’t love saving time and being a bit lazy!? VLSub is VLC Player extension which does exactly that. It saves you precious time and clicks and makes it easy to get subs for any digital media you are playing.
VLSub
VLSub does exactly what the name suggests, adds sub(titles) to the media played on VLC Player. This extension can search and download subtitles which are available on opensubtitles.org using the hash or name the currently playing video.
The best part is, it would find multiple subtitles and you choose which you want to keep/use for your media. Why is that needed? Well at times the subtitles and the audio are out of sync, and its really annoying when that happens.
How to use VLSub?
- Make sure VLC is installed correctly. Duh! Close the VLC player if its running.
- Download VLSub extension from its Github page. Extract the compressed file and look for the ‘vlsub.lua’ file in the extracted folder.
- Now go to your VLC player installed location.
For Windows : C:/Program Files/VideoLan/VLC/lua/extensions/
For OS X : /Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/lua/extensions/
For Linux : /usr/lib/vlc/lua/extensions/
For many the lua and/or extensions folder might not exist ( if you haven’t installed any extensions before ) so create these folder(s). - Open any digital media in your VLC Player. Now go to View > Choose ‘VLSub‘.
- Set your language and either search by hash or name. As soon as the search is complete you’ll have a list of subtitles. Select the appropriate subtitles file from the list, click on the ‘Download Selection’. That’s it!
If you aren’t sure which one to download from the huge list of available subtitles, just download and try a few till you get the ones which have the audio in sync.
This extension surely does save time, well not much but does most of the donkey work for you to search and download to the appropriate folder. All you need to do is, click , download and enable it.
