28/03/2009: A new version of SubViewer is available here: SubViewer 4.0.1 Beta Version!
SubViewer 3.063 is abandoned for development.
SubViewer is a software that can displayed a subtitle synchronized with a movie (Divx, Avi, etc...)
SubViewer is based on Windows Media Player. It use all format of
subtitle like MicroDVD, SAMI, SubRip, SubViewer 1.0 and 2.0, Sub
Station Alpha and others...
SubViewer is completely free...
Additional Languages here
WikiPedia Info: [ English ] [ French ]
Before SubViewer, the subtitles were known through DVD players. With
time many videos did appear on Internet but only the most of the time
in English. For David Dolinski, author of SubViewer, this was a good
idea to create a video player but with a synchronized subtitle and this
one in the language of user.
So in 1999, David Dolinski launches the first version of SubViewer. This one had a very big success on Internet with millions of download on http://www.dado.be. Subtitle was born and used per the most of people at home!
Millions of subtitles was created by many users of SubViewer and later some DIVX Players will read this kind of subtitle.
In 2000, David Dolinski creates a new version of SubViewer with a new version of subtitle (2.0) (extension file .sub) and a friend from him (name Brain) creates SubRip with a new subtitle format with an extension file .srt,
these two formats are today the most used subtitles in the world! And
if you read a manual of DIVX player, you will see that this DIVX player
is compatible with .sub or .srt subtitle files.
David Dolinski and Brain gained anything with its software except notoriety to be known in the world of subtitling.