# Subtitles

## Loading subtitles

If you load subtitles using Load Subtitles or Load Subtitle URL commands on the File menu, &kplayer; will load the subtitles, restart playback and then seek to the position where it was playing. It will also automatically remember your choice and reload the subtitles next time you play the same file or URL. If you don't want &kplayer; to remember your choice of subtitles, or if you want it to remember your other choices, you can choose that on the Controls page in &kplayer; Settings.

## Autoloading

You can also let &kplayer; load subtitles automatically by placing them in the same directory as the movie and giving them the same name as the movie and the correct subtitle extension. For example, if you play a file called `Carandiru.avi`, and you have `srt` subtitles for it, you can name the subtitle file `Carandiru.srt`, `Carandiru.SRT`, `Carandiru.avi.srt` or `Carandiru.avi.SRT`.

&kplayer; will autoload subtitle types you choose on the Subtitles page in &kplayer; Settings. Autoloading only works for local files, and &kplayer; will not remember autoloaded subtitles, rather it will autoload them every time.

If you loaded subtitles manually and want to revert to autoloading, go to the Subtitles page in File Properties and change the Autoload property.

## Subtitle settings

Subtitle visibility, vertical position and time delay can be changed using commands on the Subtitles submenu of the Player menu. As usual, using keyboard shortcuts is recommended. By default &kplayer; will remember the subtitle delay for each file or URL, and will keep the vertical position across files. This can be changed on the Controls page in &kplayer; Settings.

Subtitle font, size, horizontal position and other things can be set with corresponding options from &mplayer; manpage. Put them into the Additional command line parameters field on the Advanced page either in &kplayer; Settings or in individual File Properties. You can also choose a subtitle font by creating a link to it from the `.mplayer` directory like this:

``ln` `-s` `/usr/share/fonts/truetype/Arial.ttf` `~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf``

## Finding subtitles

Extratitles.to seems to be the best place to look for subtitles as of this writing. Make sure to enable popup blocking before going to that site though.