How to Add Subtitles to Kodi – Watch Movies/TV with Subtitles on Kodi
Do you like to watch foreign films? Or do you just want to keep the volume low when you watch TV shows and movies? If the answer to either of those questions was yes, you need subtitles. Kodi has very powerful and customizable built-in subtitle functionality. Keep reading to find out how to add subtitles to Kodi.
Warning
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5 reasons to use subtitles
Most people use subtitles to help them understand foreign language movies and shows. But, there are many other uses for subtitles.
Subtitles give you a way to watch TV with the volume turned all the way down. Also, if you’re interested in the craft of screenwriting, subtitles may give you new insights. Additionally, subtitles can help you learn a new language. Yet another reason to use subtitles is the fact that doing so can help you guard against hearing loss caused by listening to loud sounds.
1. Watch movies and TV shows without disturbing others.
Subtitles are especially useful if you want to watch TV with the sound off. Subtitle mode comes in handy if you don’t want to wake up your kids or your partner when watching TV at night, or if the environment around you is noisy and distracting.
2. Understand foreign films.
If you’ve run out of things to watch in your own language, try watching a few foreign films. If you want to check out movies and TV shows from other cultures, there’s a ton of content that’s waiting for you to explore. There are good English translations of just about every major program and movie ever made.
3. Gain a new appreciation of movie dialogue.
Are you the type of person that likes to memorize memorable bits of movie dialogue? If so, you might want to consider using subtitles. Subtitles can help you gain a better appreciation for scriptwriting. Seeing the words appear on the bottom of the screen will enable you to gain a better understanding of how dialogue can make or break a story.
4. Learn a new language.
Language experts say that one of the best way to learn a language is to watch subtitled movies. You can learn the basics of a language from a grammar book. But subtitled movies give you a much better feel for how people really talk.
5. Protect your ears.
Your ears are sensitive organs. If you damage the microscopic hair-like projections (known as stereocilia) that perch on top of the hair cells, they won’t grow back. That’s why if you already suffer from NIHL (Noise Induced Hearing Loss), it’s a very bad idea to crank up the volume when you watch TV. Loud volume TV will only cause further damage to your ears.
How to turn on subtitles in Kodi Krypton
If you haven’t upgraded to Kodi Krypton yet, you should. The newest flavor of Kodi features improved video playback, enhanced sound, improved web scrapers and a long list of subtle technical improvements.
Read on to find out how to find the subtitles settings menus in Kodi Krypton’s new default skin, Estuary.
1. Click the gear icon
If you look on the top left side of the screen, you’ll notice a blue bubble with a white gear inside of it. Click that to open up Kodi Krypton’s settings menu.
Player settings is the topmost menu on the left.
3. Configure your language settings
Click the language menu on the left to open it up.
By default, Kodi is set to search for and download English subtitles. If you want to download subtitles for other languages, click languages to download subtitles for.
4. Choose your subtitles addon
Click default tv show service. You should see a screen that looks like the one depicted below.
Click get more to pull up a list of subtitle addons. Then, choose one of the subtitle addons from the list.
After you pick your TV shows subtitles addon, select default movie service and pick the default subtitle addon you want to use for movies.
Note: There’s no limit to the amount of subtitle services you can download. It’s a good idea to get several different subtitles services, that way you’ll have a greater chance of finding subtitles when you need them.
ow to configure open subtitles
If you’re looking for English subtitles, we recommend that you download opensubtitles.org. In order to use the opensubtitles.org addon, you have to visit the website and create a free account.
Once you get your free Open Subtitles account, you have to enter your username and password into the addon first before you can use it.
- Go to opensubtitles.org and create an account.
- Open up the addons main menu, then click the enter addons browser button.
- Next, click my addons and open the menu labeled subtitles.
- Hover over open subtitles, then alt click it to bring up the contextual menu.
- Enter your username and password.
5. Download some subtitles
After you’ve selected a few subtitle services, just pull up a movie and click the white subtitles chat bubble icon on the bottom of the screen.
