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Thanks so much. That was a huge help moonwatcher!!

I associated the file with VLC and put it in the same folder as the movie.

Problem: How do I play avi and srt files together in VLC media player 1.0.3?

Solution:
1) Click 'Media' tab.
2) Choose 'Advanced Open File'
3) In 'File Selection' just 'Add..' your movie file.
4) Check the box 'Use a subtitles file' and 'Browse...' the location of the .srt file.

Thank you Moonwatcher. the codec worked perfectly to fix my problem.

There are 2 programs at present that can open .avi files and both are open source and free to download. Many users prefer to keep both installed to provide compatibility with as many file formats as possible.

VLC Player is a cross platform application with a mac version available for download from the VLC website.

MPlayer has a simpler interface but fewer features. It is available from the MPlayer website.

Any remaining AVIs not compatible with the above two, should be able to be handled by Mac OS 9 QuickTime or QuickTime for Windows, each of which have the older versions of the Intel Indeo codec.

Mplayer allowed easy sub loading!
thanx moon watcher!

Thanks for the tip:

to display the subtitles download Directvobsub and install, it will automatically load the srt file into you player when you view your movie file.

http://www.free-codecs.com/download/DirectVobSub.htm

I had a two part idea, I want to edit the .srt subtitle file to work over some crapy spelling and odd syntax. Then with the modified .srt subtitle run up a DVD with Nero9.

I have not worked with subtitles before. And have no clue where to start. But, I suppose if worse comes to worst cases I can hard code the subtitles and burn that output to a DVD with Nero.

Everyone! Good grief, it’s sad to find such a forum where no one really has any decent answers. To play srt files with vlc media player, the name of the srt file MUST BE THE SAME AS THE AVI FILE! That’s it! Tada! So damn hard wasn’t it? Hope it helps some of you sad ppls.

I have a pc. I have torrent files in on file and then 11 .srt in a .zip file (1 per episode). I have to use a program for the torrents and I already have that (I use LimeWire) but I don’t know what to do with .srt.

Also, any clue what to do with .ass files? No, that has nothing to do with the above. Just thought I’d ask since that is also getting popular now.

Thanks to moonwatcher. you save my miserable life of watching foreign language movie without knowing what the hell they are talking about.