VLC is a free and open source multimedia player that supports most multimedia files as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs and also supports streaming links. It's a simple, powerful and a fast player that plays everything including Files, Disks, Webcams, and Streams. It plays most of the codecs with no codes pack required. It's completely free and runs on all platforms including Windows, Linux, Android etc.
VLC comes with a feature with which you can load subtitle with its subtitle download extension. Now, you don't need to search and download subtitles and with VLC you can download and load subtitles very easily.
STEPS REQUIRED TO DOWNLOAD AND LOAD SUBTITLES IN VLC ITSELF:
VLSub is an extension for VLC which can search and download required subtitles from opensubtitles.org using hash or name of the video you are playing.
◘ Open VLC, load a video and under the "View" option you should see "VLSub" option.
◘ Now by clicking VLSub, you should see VLSub window. Now you can search for desired video subtitle by selecting subtitle language and also video title. You can download subtitle by using both "search by hash" or "search by hash". If you prefer "search by hash", then the hash will be calculated and the subtitle according to the hash will be displayed. If you choose "search by name", the subtitle according to name will be displayed.
◘ When you find the correct result in the list then highlight and click "Download Selection". The default download location is the same location as video and automatically loaded in the video.
VLSub is very useful to download subtitles and prevent the wasting of our time in searching and downloading the subtitles.