Movies are no longer seen as an entertainment source but little more than that. Dialogues, which are from popular, gain popularity easily and people can in cash on then. One way of getting profits from a movie is to make it available in a language like foreign languages. Such steps can surely bring returns. One way to do this is that one can translate all dialogues in the desired languages but this can be a lengthy process therefore most preferred technique is to include subtitles in it. Subtitles are primarily used when speech or accent cannot be interpreted or understood properly. These subtitles can therefore are exact version or the translated version of the dialogues. Hence subtitles or captions are basically textual versions of the dialogues, which are being played out from the movie or a video. Subtitles can also be used in a manner to aid people who cannot understand spoken languages like people who are hearing impaired. Subtitles have proven to be very beneficial for them. Considering all these benefits of subtitles one must learn as to how to play AVI SRT files. Process of playing such files that include subtitles is thought as a difficult process but understanding and knowledge of such files can help us to ease trouble and operating even simpler.

On Internet one can find subtitles in two popular file formats. These files are .SRT and .SUB files that are easily available on Internet and can be downloaded easily as well from various subtitle websites. There are numerous websites which are characterized by these subtitles in fact a desired subtitle can be obtained just by typing subtitle on the Google window. It is often guaranteed that first five search results can provide you with solution of desired subtitle query. As seen the accessibility and availability of AVI or SRT files is so simple similarly learning how to play AVI SRT file is also easy and can be understood by general sequence of steps.

It is important to note that windows media player don’t play AVI SRT by default and require DirectVobSub. DirectVobSub acts as a filter, which allows media player to display the subtitles. Media players like VLC and GOM have no such issues. Also it is important to note that both files .AVI file as well as .SRT file should be present in same folder. Hence whenever one wish to get subtitles displayed one must copy the .SRT to the same folder as of the movie and then rename it to the same file as that of video/movie with an .SRT extension. Now one can open it in windows media player.