Subtitles & Pictures

The options how Home Multimedia Library will work with subtitles & pictures features can be set by using this page.

Subtitles Timeline

Show subtitles timeline on main window

If you check this option then software will show subtitles timeline on main software window.

Subtitles text, line by line will appear on the bottom of main window just below the playback controls (slider and time displays)

Show subtitles timeline on full video screen

If you check this option then software will show subtitles timeline on full screen.

Subtitles text, line by line will appear on the bottom of the screen

Show subtitles timeline on mini media player window

If you check this option then software will show subtitles timeline on mini media player window

Subtitles text, line by line will appear on the bottom of the window

Auto hides timeline when no text is present

If you check this option then software will show subtitles timeline only when subtitles text is available for currently played file

If subtitles are not available then the timeline will be hidden.

Pictures Source

These options apply to artist pictures feature. Here you can set where from the Home Multimedia Library can get pictures to display.

You can select one or more options here, if software do not find images in one source then will try to get form another.
 

Integrate with Home Multimedia Library

To use this option you must have installed and configured your media library files collection using our another software Home Multimedia Library
When this option is checked and you start a playback then Home Multimedia Library can show artist pictures from Home Multimedia Library databases.
Only one rule must be followed here, the file name of audio or video file you are playing must be the same as is in the Home Multimedia Library media database.

How it  works you can see by clicking on this link

Image files on disk
If you check this option then software will try to get artist picture from associated image file on disk.

How to associate external images to all types of media files:

If you have some artists image file then rename them with the same name as the media files are.

Supported image files are; .jpg .gif .bmp .png and more of popular formats.

Now you can choose where you want to keep yours artist image files.

1. You can choose one folder to store them all in the one place. Set folder's path using Pictures folder text box

For example:

If you did set the Custom Images folder like: c:\My Artists Images Folder then

When you start play file "c:\My song.mpg" then program will look into

"c:\My Artists Images Folder\ for a file named "My song.jpg"

If a file is found then the file will be loaded into a Pictures window
 

2. If you choose not to create one general folder for images then you have to create separate folder named "Pictures" in the same folders whenever your media files are.

Probably this could be the most useful option.

For example:

When you start play a file "c:\Band\My song.mpg" then program will look into

"c:\Band\Pictures\ for a image file named "My song.jpg"

If a file is found then it will be loaded into a Pictures window

MP3 file tag
Only MP3 files have special ID3 Tag v2 and ability to keep images inside the file.

When you start to play MP3 file then an image from MP3 file tag will be extracted and shown

How to put images into a MP3 file:

You can use our File Audio Processor software, which you may download here, or any other software that can write images into a MP3 file

Pictures folder

Here you can set and enable to use your custom folder for artists image files.
This option is an addition for Image files on disk option described above

To set a location of your folder click on a button located on the right side of the text box and choose the folder from dialog window.

If you do not want to use this option then simply clear this text box.

When the picture is loaded into a Picture window you can control the picture size and zoom it using the Picture controls view located at the toolbar
If there are more pictures than one fetched from sources above you can view them by using Previous and Next command located at the toolbar

Subtitles Source

These options apply to artist Subtitles feature. Here you can set where from the Home Multimedia Library can get subtitles to display.

You can select one or more options here, if software do not find subtitles text in one source then will try to get form another.
 

Integrate with Home Multimedia Library

To use this option you must have installed and configured your media library files collection using our another software Home Multimedia Library
When this option is checked and you start a playback then Home Multimedia Library can show subtitles text from Home Multimedia Library databases.
Only one rule must be followed here, the file name of audio or video file you are playing must be the same as is in the Home Multimedia Library media database.

How it  works you can see by clicking on this link

Shared subtitles database

When this option is checked and you start the playback then software will try to get subtitles text from the database.
This program an all our other media programs use internal Subtitles.sdf database.
You can edit this database using Sprintbit Media Player's Subtitles Editor feature
This probably is the best option to go.

Text files on disk
If you check this option then software will try to get subtitles text from associated text file on disk.

How to associate external subtitles text to all types of media files:

Create an empty text file with the same name as the media file is but with extension .txt

You may use Create Subtitles Files command from Tools menu to ease the task.

Now you can choose where you want to keep your subtitles text files.

     1. You can choose one folder to store them all in one place.  Set folder's path using Subtitles folder text box

For example:

If you have set the Custom Subtitles folder like: c:\My Subtitles Folder then

When you start play file "c:\My song.mpg" then program will look into

"c:\My Subtitles Folder\ for file named "My song.txt"

If a file is found then the file will be loaded into a Subtitles window as subtitles text

2. If you choose not to create one general folder for subtitles then you have to create separate folders named "Subtitles" whenever your media files are.

Probably this could be the most useful option.

For example:

When you start play file "c:\Band\My song.mpg" then program will look into

"c:\Band\Subtitles\ for file "My song.txt"

If a file is found then the file will be loaded into a Subtitles window as subtitles text

While the text file is loaded into a Subtitles window you can edit the text and use the Save Subtitles to update the text on disk.

Save Subtitles command is located at Ribbon bar under Tools menu in File Manager group, in Command menu.

While the picture is loaded into a Picture window you can control the picture size and zoom it using the Picture controls view located at main window Playback pages located on left side of the window.
Please note that the main  Picture Viewer if is active then has the priority when using those buttons

MP3 file tag
Only MP3 files have special ID3 Tag v2 and ability to keep subtitles inside the file.

When you start to play MP3 file then a text from MP3 file tag will be extracted and shown

How to put subtitles text into a MP3 file:

You can use our File Audio Processor software, which you may download here, or any other software that can write text into a MP3 file

Subtitles folder

Here you can set and enable to use your custom folder for subtitles text files.
This option is an addition for Text files on disk option described above

To set a location of your folder click on a button located on the right side of the text box and choose the folder from dialog window.

If you do not want to use this option then simply clear this text box.