So I want to watch anime in japanese with english subtitles. I know it HAS
subtitles because I can watch it on another DVD player with subtitles. But
clicking english subtitles in the disc menu, clicking english subtitles in
the play menu, and turning on show local captions in the tools/options menu
did not work either. What to do? I need help!

On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 20:51:04 -0800, "Kinda sick of technology." <Kinda
sick of technology.@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>So I want to watch anime in japanese with english subtitles. I know it HAS
>subtitles because I can watch it on another DVD player with subtitles. But
>clicking english subtitles in the disc menu, clicking english subtitles in
>the play menu, and turning on show local captions in the tools/options menu
>did not work either. What to do? I need help!

It looks like you might need FFDShow from Sourceforge :
http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...id=53761#files

It's a set of filters for playing video, but also includes subtitle
support. The subtitles on DVDs are usually a stream of pictures of
text rather than text itself, and I think the subtitles & captions
part of WMP only deals with text subtitles. F

FDShow should allow the player to overlay the subtitle 'pictures' onto
the video.

HTH
Cheers - Neil