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Download Subtitles Automatically in VLC Media Player without Delay

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VLC media player is an open source application, which is free to use on any OS. It has many advantages over other media players. It supports almost all formats of audio/video. You can change switch language if you have multiple audio files supported video. And the most important thing is that, it supports subtitles. Means if you are watching non-English movies, English subtitles will help you to understand that movie easily by reading them. But you can’t get subtitles for all movies by default. So this article will explore you “how to Download Subtitles Automatically in VLC Media Player without Delay” easily, by doing some setting.

Download Subtitles Automatically in VLC Media Player without Delay

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Steps to Get VLC Media Player Subtitles

Just follow the easy steps and enjoy.

1. Download below extension which is available free on Videolan official website.

Download Vlsub extension

2. Extract the downloaded file and copy vslub extension.

3. Now goto the directory where you have installed the VLC player, mostly we found that C:Program FilesVideoLANVLClua

4. Now create a folder and named it as “extensions”, paste the vlsub extension into that folder.
5. Open your VLC player and select tab View menu, you will find a new option- vlsubextension.

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6. Now play any movie and select vlsub extension, it’ll show a dialog box with some options like title, subtitles language etc.

7. Now put the name of the movie which you are watching in the title and click on search by name box, if you have hash then select other option, it’ll show you many sources to download subtitles so select matching one and click Download option.
 That’s it, now you’ll be able to see the subtitles on your screen over videos.

Note: This extension is currently working for VLC 2.0.8 , if you use latest version of VLC then you must wait for next update of videolan, otherwise simply use older version of VLC to get subtitles.

For Non-Windows OS

If you are MAC or  Linux user then follow the below guidelines for step 3.

For Linux Users

/usr/lib/vlc/lua/extensions/

or
~/.local/share/vlc/lua/extensions/ – For Linux Current User

 For Mac Users

/Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/lua/extensions/

or


/Users/%your_name%/Library/Application Support/org.videolan.vlc/lua/extensions/  

 

Are You Facing VLC Subtitle Delay?

This is the major problem you may face while watching your movies that subtitles might not match with your current audio/video of the movie. So to overcome this problem follow the below points.

During playback you can press g or h to adjust subtitle delay (adjust step is 50 ms).

1. If subtitle is ahead of sound, press g

2. If subtitle is behind sound, press h

Now you have learned to download subtitles in VLC media player automatically without delay. If you like to watch movies on your PC then definitely you have VLC media player. So follow the above steps when you watch your next movie and enjoy the subtitles. While steps are very easy but in case you didn’t get any point then let me know, I’ll try to clear out that.
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Comments

  2. when i click on ‘view’ there is no ‘vlslub’ found so can’t i use english subtitles without this extension?

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