I am using Ubuntu 13.10 .
Is there any video player that can show two subtitles at a time while watching?
Thank you.
Ubuntu – Any video player that can show two subtitles at a time
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I would suggest using MPlayer. It's a really nice, feature-rich player, but often beginners have problem with the interface (CLI based by design) and the "too many possibilities" (which is also the result of being feature-rich player btw). "Raw MPlayer" (without frontends) allows you to position your subtitles with keys 'r' and 't', also you can try key 'a' to modify alignment. You can also learn about options and default keybindings by typing man mplayer within terminal. You can also visit the documentation of MPlayer at MPlayer's site: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/MPlayer.html
You can also try to use many of the GUI based frontends written for MPlayer, like SMPlayer, Gnome mplayer, etc. MPlayer has its own GUI too, some people say it's not so good as some frontends though. On default install it can be launched with command 'gmplayer' or by looking the menu item showing installed softwares (make sure you haven't tried the nogui version - from the package name - because it has not got GUI support compiled in!).
About your question: mplayer can use TTF fonts, shaded/antialiased, positioned, etc as subtitles, so as far as I can imagine it should be enough for your needs, if usability is not a problem at least :)
Arista can do both of these things, and it provides a very nice, easy GUI. It's available in the repos.
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Best Answer
There's a tool called 2srt2ass that can take two langauages in two separate subtitle SRT files and combines them into one SSA/ASS file, showing one language at the top of the screen and one at the bottom.
Something like that's probably the cleanest solution in terms of playback (you can just use the player you would have anyway) but it's a bit of a faff to get started if you've got lots of videos to do this for.
Alternatives that do the same thing: SrtMerger
There's also an
awkscript on Ubuntu Forums that might be able to do the same thing.