Originally Posted by anthonie

Provided you have the up to date repo's in your source.list and you're not afraid of the terminal;

Code:

devel-su

password

Code:

apt-get update & apt-get install mplayer

After that, the easiest way is to rename your subtitles to the same name as your video file as it will automatically play. Otherwise you'll have to use a format like

Code:

mplayer -sub </path/to/subfile> /path/to/videofile

Some people hate it, perhaps because it's a terminal app, for me it's my most used vid-app on both my phone and my desktop.