Click Choose File and locate the first SRT file on your computer, if your subtitles have special characters you might need to change the Encoding drop down to match, use UTF-8 if you’re unsure. Visit SRT Merger, an online tool that merges multiple SRT subtitle files into 1 SRT file.Ģ. There are a couple of ways to do this but we found the easiest is to use an online tool that does the hard work for you.ġ. Merging the different language subtitles into one file means the player will play them all at once. Software media players and many TVs and DVD players can play subtitles when they are in a separate file with the same name as the video file (excluding extension), SRT is most commonly supported while SSA, ASS and possibly IDX subtitles could be depending on your hardware. Merging Different Languages into a Single Subtitle File Thankfully there are ways to display several different subtitles at once on a video, all you need to hand is the video file and the subtitles you want to watch (in the form of correctly synced SRT files). The best you’ll be able to manage is perhaps switching between different languages, but there will still only be one subtitle on screen at any one time. But there is something most software media players, TVs and DVD/Blu-ray players can’t do, and that is display two different subtitles at the same time of two completely different languages. The common thing to do is download or run subtitles along with the video. This is especially the case if you plan to watch the video with someone who isn’t fluent in the language it was produced, and even though you might be able to understand it better, you might be more comfortable in another language again.

Although it’s easy to get hold of virtually anything these days thanks to the internet, it’s probably not going to be possible to get everything in your native language. There’s a huge wealth of TV programs and Movies made around the world and obviously the total back catalog probably runs into the millions.

How to add subtitles to a movie