Subtitles for VOD & TV Series

[Buzz Box 6]

Is there any way to get subtitles for foreign films or TV series?

[dishuser]

14 minutes ago, Buzz Box 6 said:

Is there any way to get subtitles for foreign films or TV series?

find a service that provides them

[Emporium]

Ideally, your service would have them already embedded in the container.  Making selecting the subtitle track super easy.  However there is an alternative if they are not encoded.  Not as elegant, but it works.

You can set the player for VOD/TV Series to "external".  Then you can select a video player like MXPlayer (which you obviously need to install ahead of time - or your prefered video player that supports external sub downloading).  For MXPlayer, once movie starts, you can go to the menu (menu button on remote, surprisingly works for this), select "Online subtitles", select "search", and then select the "Enter your search text" box and press ok.  Type in the name of the movie and choose from a wide selection of subs, that closest matches what you are watching.  There are so many rips out there and some may have a second to offset, so on some titles, finding the properly synced one can take some time.    If it is just an offset, MX Player also allows you to "synchronize" subtitles by shifting +-sec.  And in some cases, you may need to go into mouse pointer mode to select things.

Like I said.  Not elegant, but it works.