{"id":7029,"date":"2008-12-15T13:23:22","date_gmt":"2008-12-15T12:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/allplayer-the-ultimate-media-player-for-subtitles\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:26:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:26:00","slug":"allplayer-the-ultimate-media-player-for-subtitles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/allplayer-the-ultimate-media-player-for-subtitles\/","title":{"rendered":"ALLPlayer &#8211; the ultimate media player for subtitles?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine the scene. You&#8217;re just about to settle down to a film on your PC but because it&#8217;s in a foreign language, you need subtitles. You spend the next half and hour searching the internet for the right subtitle files only to find that everything you try either doesn&#8217;t work or is badly out of sync. In the end, you&#8217;re too tired and frustrated to bother watching it anymore so you go to bed and curse the subtitle world.<\/p>\n<p>If this scenario is familiar to you then you should try <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.allplayer.org\/index_en.htm\">ALLPlayer<\/a><\/strong> which has the best support for subtitles in any media player I&#8217;ve tried. ALLPlayer is a refreshing change as far as media players go because it not only automatically retrieves film subtitles based on the movie file&#8217;s title but it can even &#8220;speak&#8221; the subtitles back to you &#8211; albeit in voice that sounds rather like Robocop. ALLPlayer uses the excellent database at <a href=\"http:\/\/opensubtitles.org\">opensubtitles.org<\/a> to match your file name with the appropriate subtitles meaning it does the searching for you.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2008\/12\/motorcycle2.png\" alt=\"ALLPlayer Subtitles Access\" \/><\/p>\n<p>OK, the results are not always perfect and sometimes it doesn&#8217;t find anything at all but it&#8217;s a darn sight more efficient than going on a wild goose chase for them yourself. It retrieves the subtitles in no more than a few seconds, downloads them to your film folder and you can activate them immediately.<\/p>\n<p>ALLPlayer also handles subtitles differently from most average players. Using something called &#8220;IQ text&#8221; it can detect the length of a phrase of sentence and make sure that the subtitles are kept on screen long enough for you to read them. Unless you&#8217;ve only just started learning a language however, and can&#8217;t read very quickly, this soon becomes annoying as the subtitles appear to be out of sync all the time.<\/p>\n<p>Although there are skins available through the LiveUpdate feature (which also supposedly updates the codecs for you although the database doesn&#8217;t always work), AllPlayer doesn&#8217;t feel quite as slick as something simpler like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bsplayer.org\">BSPlayer<\/a> but this can be forgiven for the subtitle features. Some other more basic features yoo &#8211; such as full screen mode &#8211; are not as obvious as they should be either. Nevertheless, ALLPlayer is an excellent choice for all those that rely on using subtitles with their films.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine the scene. You&#8217;re just about to settle down to a film on your PC but because it&#8217;s in a foreign language, you need subtitles. You spend the next half and hour searching the internet for the right subtitle files only to find that everything you try either doesn&#8217;t work or is badly out of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/allplayer-the-ultimate-media-player-for-subtitles\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;ALLPlayer &#8211; the ultimate media player for subtitles?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2009,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[3036],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-7029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionmedia-player"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2009"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335756,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7029\/revisions\/335756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7029"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=7029"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=7029"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=7029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}