View Full Version : Local Subtitles for WMP 1.1 - Vobsub/Vsfilter alternative

TOM_SK
18th February 2011, 10:45
A plug-in for WMP9 and above, that shows local non-SAMI subtitles. Supports multiple subtitle files simultaneously. Not being a filter, it doesn't modify DS/MF pipeline and has no performance overhead. Specifically oriented on Windows Media Player 12/Windows7 x86/x64.

This is a background plug-in for Windows Media Player. Its sole purpose is enabling textual subtitles, that accompany media files in formats not supported directly by Microsoft. The plug-in is intended primarily to Windows7/WMP12 x86/x64, since on prior OSes FFDShow can be used. On Windows 7, due to enforcing of Media Foundation framework and Enhanced Video Renderer, FFDShow can't (and shouldn't) be used any more. Almost everything is supported out-of-the-box. The three exceptions are: Matroska Splitter (available from Haali in x86/x64), DTS audio to stereo convertion (available via <ac3filter> in x86/x64) and, finally, non-SAMI subtitles, mainly in SRT format, supported via DirectVOBsub/VSFilter, but the latter always modifies MF/DS pipeline, degrades performance, spoils native SAMI support, doesn't display unicode SAMI properly and shows subtitles over the movie picture, that is inferior to Microsoft's way - under the movie frame.

What's new in this version:
- Added a button on WMP to load subtitles manually from any location.
- Manual load of "SubRip (*.srt)", "SAMI (*.smi;*.sami)" and "Substation Alpha (*.ssa;*.ass)" formats.
- Some minor format parsing improvements.

Screenshots:
http://codecpack.co/download/Local-Subtitles-for-WMP.html

Project Page @SourceForge:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/wmpsub/
Midzuki
18th February 2011, 12:10
voxel.dl.sourceforge.net/project/wmpsub/ReadMe.txt says:

System requirements:

Windows XP or above (intended to Windows 7), x86/x64

Windows Media Player 9 or above (intended to WMP12), x86/x64

Your subtitle plugin doesn't work well with WMP 9 under XP.
When instructed to load a non-SAMI file, all the plugin does is display a SAMI tag during the entire playback time -.-

BTW, ¿ who uses SAMI subtitles ? :)
TOM_SK
11th March 2011, 21:04
Local Subtitles for WMP 1.4

What's new in this version:
1. Now it's possible to resize the font and change its weight.
2. Support for Right-to-Left global text direction.
TIP: Right click the subtitles button to set preferences.

BTW, I'm not the author of this, all the credits goes to Alexander Demidov (http://demidov71.users.sourceforge.net/)
b66pak
11th March 2011, 21:07
thanks a lot...

BTW, ¿ who uses SAMI subtitles ? :)

this are very popular in Korea...
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Superb
11th March 2011, 23:27
Tested v1.4 on WMP12 (Win7+SP1) and works very nice w/ Hebrew subtitles.
Would be great if one could make the background completely transparent.
Also, shadow under the letters, and maybe an option to choose stroke size...

Btw, would it work w/ Windows Media Center as well?
TOM_SK
12th March 2011, 20:49
Version v1.4b

1. Now it's possible to resize the font and change its weight.
2. Support for Right-to-Left global text direction.
3. Distance between lines can be changed and default font size is larger.
TIP: Right click the subtitles button to set preferences.
TOM_SK
28th March 2011, 18:03
Local Subtitles for WMP 1.5

This is a background plug-in for Windows Media Player. Its sole purpose is enabling textual subtitles, that accompany media files in formats not supported directly by Microsoft. The plug-in is intended primarily to Windows7/WMP12 x86/x64, since on prior OSes <ffdshow> can be used. On Windows 7, due to enforcing of Media Foundation framework and Enhanced Video Renderer, <ffdshow> can't (and shouldn't) be used any more. Almost everything is supported out-of-the-box. The three exceptions are: Matröška splitter (available from Haali in x86/x64), DTS audio to stereo convertion (available via <ac3filter> in x86/x64) and, finally, non-SAMI subtitles, mainly in SRT format, supported via DirectVOBsub/VSFilter, but the latter always modifies MF/DS pipeline, degrades performance, spoils native SAMI support, doesn't display unicode SAMI properly and shows subtitles over the movie picture, that is inferior to Microsoft's way - under the movie frame.

History: 28.03.2011
Installer with possibility to switch WMP to 64 or 32 bit.
The switch works best on untempered registry.
The switch doesn't change keys' owner, has minimum possible impact on registry and switchs completely (with file associations). 64 and 32 bit packages can be installed on the same 64-bit PC simultaneously.

http://i.imgur.com/lhwwO.png

http://i.imgur.com/X9bM0.png