{"id":721,"date":"2021-11-20T18:54:24","date_gmt":"2021-11-20T18:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/droix.co.uk\/knowledge-base\/kb\/how-to-enable-and-select-subtitles-for-videos-in-kodi\/"},"modified":"2021-11-21T12:55:31","modified_gmt":"2021-11-21T12:55:31","slug":"how-to-enable-and-select-subtitles-for-videos-in-kodi","status":"publish","type":"kb","link":"https:\/\/droix.net\/knowledge-base\/article\/how-to-enable-and-select-subtitles-for-videos-in-kodi\/","title":{"rendered":"How to enable and select Subtitles for Videos in Kodi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-redactor=\"1\">Please open Kodi, and follow these steps:<\/div>\n<div data-redactor=\"1\">System (click the menu entry please)&gt;Video&gt;Subtitles<\/div>\n<div data-redactor=\"1\">On some skins you may need to click on Settings, or Power\/Exit\/Quit then Settings.<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div data-redactor=\"1\"><\/div>\n<div data-redactor=\"1\">Make sure subtitles are enabled, and also make sure &#8220;Languages to download subtitles for&#8221; only has English entered there. Finally <b>Preferred subtitle language<\/b> is set to English (you&#8217;ll need to scroll down a bit to find it).<\/div>\n<div data-redactor=\"1\"><\/div>\n<div data-redactor=\"1\">Now, when you watch a video move the cursor and you&#8217;ll see the normal playback controls towards the bottom of the screen. One of these looks like a rectangle with a horizontal line at the bottom. If you click this icon (different skins may use different icons), you should be able to download subtitles there if they aren&#8217;t in the video stream itself. If the initial search doesn&#8217;t find any subtitles, press the right cursor a couple of times, and you&#8217;ll be able to try searching using the other subtitle service.<\/div>\n<div data-redactor=\"1\"><\/div>\n<div data-redactor=\"1\">If the subtitle you download is not in sync with the audio, search again and try a different subtitle result.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please open Kodi, and follow these steps: System (click the menu entry please)&gt;Video&gt;Subtitles On some skins you may need to click on Settings, or Power\/Exit\/Quit then Settings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"kbtopic":[11,45,17],"kbtag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-721","1":"kb","2":"type-kb","3":"status-publish","5":"kbtopic-android-tv-box","6":"kbtopic-kodi","7":"kbtopic-windows"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/droix.net\/knowledge-base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/droix.net\/knowledge-base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/droix.net\/knowledge-base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/droix.net\/knowledge-base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/droix.net\/knowledge-base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/droix.net\/knowledge-base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/droix.net\/knowledge-base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kbtopic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/droix.net\/knowledge-base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kbtopic?post=721"},{"taxonomy":"kbtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/droix.net\/knowledge-base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kbtag?post=721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}