NEW - Windows Media Player 10

Windows media player 10 has a the same keyboard shortcut as player version 9. Hold down the Shift + Ctrl + C buttons to quickly turn captions on or off.

To enable captions from the Media Player menu instead, you can choose

 

Play » Captions and Subtitles » On if available

These options are illustrated in screenshot 3, below. If a file is currently playing, you can select from multiple subtitle languages where provided (see screenshot 4) using

 

Play » Captions and Subtitles » 'English (or other language) Captions'

In all other respects, Windows Media 10 is the same as Windows Media 9 for captions. Please note that in Windows Media Player 10, you will need to turn off hardware acceleration when viewing captions in full screen mode.

Screenshot 3 : Enabling Captions in Windows media player version 10

Screenshot 4 : Enabling Captions when a video is playing

 

Windows Media Player 9

Windows media player 9 has a quick keyboard shortcut. You can hold down the Shift + Ctrl + C buttons to quickly turn captions on or off. This is called a toggle - press these keys once when you have clicked on the player, and it will turn captions on, do this again to turn them off.

To enable captions from the Media Player menu instead, you can choose

 

Play » Captions and Subtitles » On if available

These options are illustrated in screenshot 5, below. Player version 9 has the same way of resizing the caption area as Player version 7.

Screenshot 5 : Enabling Captions in Windows media player version 9

 

Windows Media Player 7

In our opinion, Microsoft made the selection of subtitles in Media Player 7 far too difficult. There doesn't appear to be a keyboard shortcut to do this. So, from the Media Player menu, you can choose

 

View » Now Playing Tools » Captions

  1. Now Playing Tools (includes equaliser, captions, visualisations
  2. Select Captions. Make sure 'Show Equalizer and settings' is also selected
  3. Also, make sure 'Show Resize Bars' is selected
  4. Finally, you can change the size of this area by dragging the resize bars to full lines of captions can be displayed.
Note : You may need to enable resizing of the caption area. This can become locked to a fixed size, and you may find captions don't fit fully in the box when viewed.

To resize this area, you can drag the thin grey bars up and down to make the area bigger. This is labelled 4 in the screen shot below of Media Player 7.

Windows Media Player 7 screenshot : Turn on your captions to view subtitled media on this site !

 

Windows Media Player 6.4

Older systems, especially windows 98, may still have Windows Media player 6.4 installed. This offers the simplest way of turning on captions !

    Screenshot 5 : Setting windows media player 6.4 to display captions
  1. From the Windows Media player menu, Choose 'View'
  2. Now, pick 'Captions', and the option will become enabled.
  3. The captions for presentations will appear in the area labelled 3, in Screenshot 5 below.

 

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