This program is used to display movie subtitles on a device (PC, phone, tablet/iPad) while the movie plays on a computer in VLC
It supports 2 subtitles files in srt format, which can be downloaded from a site like http://opensubtitles.org
The perl server script "subserver.pl" has to run on the machine that is running VLC, defaults to port 8081
You can then invoke it in your browser by opening (for example) http://myserver:8081/subs.html"
syntax to invoke vlc:
- on Linux: /usr/bin/vlc --http-host=127.0.0.1 --http-port=8080
- on Windows:
- cd \program files (x86))\VIdeoLAN/VLC
- vlc.exe --http-host=127.0.0.1 --http-port=8080