software-recommendationsubtitlevideovideo player
I want a player which can play subtitles while I am watching online movies.
I have tried VLC network streaming. It's not happening.
Well, there is a Windows app called Greenfish Subtitle Player, which allows me to play subtitles on top of my browser, but it is not available for Ubuntu. Is there any software like this ?
Edit: I have found a similar question but it is from 2012 and doesn't quite fit my requirement: Subtitle players like Greenfish.
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 :)
The best player I've seen is Miro player. It can play from a lot of sources, torrents, podcasts and feeds. You can browse from thousands of chanels directly from Miro or from their website, so far all popular channels I've seen are there.
Watch their presentation at getmiro.com
You can install it from the ubuntu software center.
good luck!
Best Answer
I had the same problem and then come up with an open-source cross-platform subtitle player, Penguin Subtitle Player. It works in the same way as greenfish but it works well also on Linux and OSX so one can play srt files on top of a web browser (or whatever).