BUZZ Player Support

Displaying Subtitle

A subtitle is a textual version of a video file. Subtitles are helpful if you are viewing a video in a language that is not understandable to you. BUZZ Player can read subtitles for the media file of all languages.

List of supported subtitle formats (update instruction from version 1.5)

What you need to prepare for displaying subtitle

Displaying subtitle along with video file

Displaying characters of subtitle correctly (update instruction on version 1.9)

Changing among multiple subtitles (add instruction from version 1.5)


List of supported subtitle formats (update instruction from version 1.5)

BUZZ Player can support many kinds of subtitles:

+ External subtitle files with extension: srt, sub, msi, ass, ssa

+ Embbeded subtitles in video file (.mkv, dvd...)



What you need to prepare for displaying subtitle

To enable display subtitle along with your playing video file, you need to ensure:

+ Add your video file and its subtitle file in a same folder on BUZZ Player. Refer to "Tranferring files" topic to add video and subtitle files to your BUZZ Player.

+ Subtitle file need have prefix of name same to video file name, only different by the rest path and extension. For example: Transporter.avi video file has subtitle file Transporter.srt

+Subtitle file must have file extension supported by BUZZ Player. Please see List of supported subtitle formats for all of subtitle file types that BUZZ Player can display.



Displaying subtitle along with video file

There are two ways to display subtitle along with your video file:

On playback screen:

+You can change settings for display subtitle while playing video file without interrupt playing video

+Touch on screen to display onscreen controls

+Tap on "Subtitle" icon to display subtitle settings

+Turn on/off display subtitle, change subtitle appearance (font size, font type, text color, text position) as you like

+You can also select other subtitle file for displaying other language

Subtitle on Playback Screen

On main screen:

+Tap on Settings button to display Settings screen

+Select Subtitle settings on the left then change settings of subtitle on the right pane

+You can change following settings:

  • Display Subtitle: turn On to display subtitle, turn Off to hide subtitle while playing video
  • Font Type: select a specific font type for subtitle to display
  • Font Size: select a specific font size for subtitle to display
  • Font Color: select a specific color for subtitle to display
  • Position: select a specific position for subtitle to display: Bottom, Top or Center position
    Subtitle settings on Main Screen


  • Displaying characters of subtitle correctly (update instruction on version 1.9)

    If your video file doesn't display subtitle or display with wrong characters please make sure you choose to display subtitle and select right text encoding setting:

    + In almost cases, select Text Encoding "Auto Detect" to display subtitle correctly. Because, with Text Encoding "Auto Detect", BUZZ Player will automatic detect text encoding of subtitle and display it correctly

    + In other cases, subtitle file has specific text encoding and BUZZ Player cannot detect correct text encoding. To display subtitle correctly, you need manual select text encoding for subtitle. Following is suggestion text encoding for some special languages:

    Note: the list of suggestion text encoding for some special languages will continue update to add more helpful information. You can also help us update this list more by sending us your successful text encoding for other languages via our support mail: support@bugunsoft.com


    Changing among multiple subtitles (add instruction from version 1.5)

    With external subtitle files:

    + While playing media file, touch screen to display onscreen playback controls

    + Touch button "TXT" to display subtitle settings

    + Locate to setting "Subtitle File"

    + Select a subtitle file to display

    + Change text encoding to correctly display subtitle if needed

    + Touch button "Done" to close Subtitle Settings screen

    + Playing video will display new subtitle immediately

    List of subtitle files of playing video

    With Embedded subtitles:

    + Tap on Settings button to display Settings screen

    + Select "Stream Index" on the left then change settings of stream index on the right pane

    + Touch "Subtitle Stream Index" then select other index to display other subtitle when playing embbeded subtitles video

    Stream Index settings on Settings screen