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by dublinben 4077 days ago
You probably already know this, but the 'pirate' community has your interests well served. There are probably very well-written subtitle tracks for any major movie available in your native language. You won't be able to use them with a Netflix stream (thanks to DRM), but VLC lets you add subtitles to any video file.
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Nexxxeh 4076 days ago
> You won't be able to use them with a Netflix stream (thanks to DRM)

I think you're wrong, and to blame DRM is ridiculous.

You can load your own subtitles on Netflix, html5 or silverlight.

You don't even need a Chrome extension for the Silverlight one, it imports DFXP directly from the debug menu (alt+shift+click iirc).

There are even browser extensions that largely automate the process for HTML5. (Downloading the subtitle file and displaying it.)

I don't know about Super Netflix but fwih Netflix Subtitle Downloader also gives you a couple of buttons to adjust subtitle sync if you need it.

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meric 4076 days ago
You can use an external subtitle player, that uses a semi-transparent window. You'd have to click the play button twice and be careful to keep in in sync when you pause/play, but it works well enough.

I think it's this one.

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Video/Other-VIDEO-To...

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