On Windows, if I just drag a srt file on to a playing video, the subtitles are displayed. On Linux, the dragging doesn't work. Now, mpv is my default player, so I just double click on the video file to play it. But I can't add subtitles. And I don't want to open my terminal everytime I play a video.
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And so many people claim mpv is better than vlc??– hopeseekrOct 5, 2020 at 16:23
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According to the MPV help page's subtitle section:
You need to put sub-auto, and likely sub-paths in your mpv.conf file (see link for examples). I'm not aware of any support for "drag and drop" subtitles addition in MPV.
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5In mpv version 0.23.0 (Debian) drag and dropping a
.srtfile seems to work.– cYrusSep 24, 2017 at 18:31
In Linux, create a file mpv.conf in ~/.config/mpv and add the following lines:
--sub-auto=all
--sub-file-paths=sub:subtitles:<any_other_folder_with_subtitle_files>
you can add names of folder where subtitles are (could be a subdirectory within the folder of the movie).
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I made a GUI so you can use it to make a MPV configuration file and play movies with subtitle using it (for GNU/Linux) :
I made a folder containing just the video file and the subtitle file and modified their names so that they are the same. I then played the video file on MPV and pressed v to show the subtitles. It worked!
BTW, I'm using MPV on Linux Mint 18.
