Mplayer Media Player Tutorial #6 Audio & Video Cross-Platform Excellent DVD Video Management Customizable Interface

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MPlayer Tutorial #6 – How to Manage Subtitles

The Free Movie Player is an extraordinary free media player that is really simple and easy to use, its most remarkable characteristic is that it offers a modular interface, if we add that to its lightweight and cross platform availability we have that MPlayer is a really versatile free media player that can be used in almost any environment by any kind of user, regardless you are a complete novice or a power user. This tutorial is about subtitle management.

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So, let´s say that you are watching a movie with The Movie Player and you have different subtitles and you want to alternate them. First of all subtitles must be loaded so if you do not know how to do that check our previous tutorial. Second of all you have to right click on the visualization module, in the popup menu go to “Subtitle Options” → “Cycle Subtitle Languages”

A legend indicating the new subtitle being loaded. The number in between brackets indicates which subtitle is being displayed

You can call this function as many times as subtitles you have but once you get to the last subtitles option will go disabled. Again you'll see a legend indicating so:

Another thing you can do is to directly disable/enable subtitles by selecting “Subtitle Visibility On/Off”

Final Words

As you can see subtitle management is just easy and simple. You can get The Media Player rigth now by clicking on the link below, MPlayer is free. What are you waiting for? Just download and start enjoying your favorite movies!!

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